Dwayne Johnson Making Ric Flair: The Movie

But who the hell can play Ric Flair other than Ric Flair?!?!

by Andrew Pollard
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Ready for Ric Flair: The Movie? Good, for if the Nature Boy is to be believed then just such a film is on the way.

Speaking on Busted Open, Naitch revealed that not only is his life being turned into a movie, but that Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions company is developing the picture.

As Flair put it, “I talked to Dwayne and Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia, and they’re gonna collaborate, the last time I heard, for all this stuff and make a movie with the WWE about me with Sue Levison, who now is with WWE and is doing a fabulous job. Sue’s got a great background. As soon as everything gets rolling again, they’ll make that movie. I am looking forward to that because I’ll have a lot of input.”

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Ric Flair obviously is one of the most fascinating, entertaining stories in the history of professional wrestling – which in turn begs the question of who the hell can play Ric Flair other than Ric Flair?!

Clearly Flair won’t be able to play himself, but whoever takes on that role will have a huge task on their hands.

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Elsewhere, Flair has now been confirmed to follow in the footsteps of The Undertaker, Bill Goldberg, Kane, Big Show, and Bret Hart in joining Steve Austin for an episode of Broken Skull Sessions.

The Nature Boy’s appearance alongside Stone Cold has reportedly already been filmed, and the episode will air on WWE Network later this month at a to-be-revealed date.

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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main dayjob, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks, Jamie Hayer, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg.