Ben Affleck’s New Hulk Hogan Movie Is Already More Exciting Than Chris Hemsworth’s

Ben Affleck’s newly announced Hulk Hogan movie, Killing Gawker, is already proving it will be more exciting than the Netflix biopic starring Chris Hemsworth. Killing Gawker is being produced by Affleck and Matt Damon, with the duo having made 10 films together already. This detail alone gives viewers a reason to look forward to the new Hulk Hogan movie. The biopic starring Chris Hemsworth has been in development for years without a release date. Hopefully, Killing Gawker won’t have the same issues, as it can build on the success of the wrestling movie The Iron Claw.

Affleck and Damon have also shown they know how to make a great sports biopic, with Air, a movie about Michael Jordan’s historical shoe deal with Nike. Though it flopped at the box office, Air received positive reviews, and Damon and Affleck gave great performances. While Chris Hemsworth is set to star in the Netflix biopic directed by Todd Phillips, it’s unconfirmed whether Affleck will be playing Hulk Hogan in Killing Gawker. It’s been rumored that he’ll take on the role, and his past movies with Damon suggest they will both be featured in the biopic.

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Killing Gawker Is About Hulk Hogan’s Sex Tape Scandal

The key difference between Affleck’s Killing Gawker and the untitled Hulk Hogan biopic starring Chris Hemsworth is their stories. The Chris Hemsworth movie will focus on Hogan’s wrestling career. Hulk Hogan is one of the most famous wrestlers of all time, and his heroic all-American persona helped the professional wrestling boom in the 1980s. Hogan’s wrestling career spanned 35 years, from 1977 to 2012, and he’s still a major figure in the wrestling world and pop culture. Yet, Killing Gawker isn’t going to be about that.

Instead, the Affleck and Damon movie is going to focus on his lawsuit against Gawker after they released a sex tape between him and Heather Clem in 2012. It was a battle that took years, and in 2016, Hogan was eventually awarded $115 million for defamation, loss of privacy, and emotional pain. Celebrity sex tape stories have proven to be of public interest, as shown by the Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy. In focusing on this specific case and not his career, Killing Gawker already has an edge over the Chris Hemsworth biopic.

Hulk Hogan Was Producing Chris Hemsworth’s Biopic But Isn’t Involved In Killing Gawker

Hulk Hogan’s Lack Of Involvement In Killing Gawker Could Be A Good Thing

Hulk Hogan is a producer on Chris Hemsworth’s biopic, which could leave out some of the more unsavory details of his career. Hulk Hogan is a controversial figure, and it wouldn’t be surprising if he wanted to leave out some of the more unsavory details of his life in the biopic he’s producing. When someone is involved in putting their life story on screen, it’s only natural that some details will be missing or shied away from, which is why it’s a good thing Hulk Hogan isn’t involved in making Killing Gawker.

Hulk Hogan’s sex tape and lawsuit against Gawker is far from his only scandal, and Killing Gawker likely won’t sugarcoat his reputation and past. If Hogan were producing the movie, that might not be the case. Fortunately, Affleck’s movie has the chance to give a more raw portrayal of the famous wrestler and that time in his life, when he had just retired and was dealing with yet another controversy outside the ring. Unlike the Chris Hemsworth biopic, Killing Gawker probably won’t be concerned with painting Hulk Hogan as an American hero.