10 Actors Who Should Play WWE Attitude Era Superstars In Movies

When transferring biographies to the big screen, Hollywood tends to think of professional wrestlers as just behind reality show chefs and retired mathematicians in terms of how many exciting their lives are. That's despite the fact that there's often more drama and tragedy outside of the ring than there is in any weekly WWE programming.

But let's pretend for just a minute that we live in a more perfect world, where the big wigs in Los Angeles loved D-Generation X just as much as you did, and are finally ready to make a movie full of crotch chops with a soundtrack by Rage Against the Machine. Who do you cast to play X-Pac? Huh, hoss? WHO DO YOU GET TO PLAY SEAN WALTMAN?

Choosing the perfect actor to play a real, flesh and blood person is a lot harder than it may seem (as I found out the last time I tried this exercise with WWE Superstars from the 80s). It's about more than finding someone who looks and sounds the part, it's about finding someone with the ability to really sink into the character and represent every facet of them.

So, based strictly off actors' previous work, their current physical appearance, and the probability of them surprising audiences with a performance no one thought they were capable of, these is the recasting of the Attitude Era. And I think we're in good hands.

Alan Tudyk is a goofy guy. His filmography up to this point is full of odd characters, most notably Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball and Heath Ledger's hot-tempered sidekick in A Knight's Tale. No two characters better showcase the hot-and-cold persona of Owen Hart, whose behind-the-scenes antics are the stuff of legend and, according to those who knew him best, resembled the actual Owen more than his hot-tempered in-ring character.

The best actors to portray professional wrestlers come from Broadway, because putting on a match is just another form of live theater. The facial expressions have to be excessive, the gestures overly matriculated, and the story needs to be told in broader strokes than afforded on film. Tudyk's Broadway experience is a huge plus when playing someone like Owen Hart, who completely bought into the theatricality of every match.

The only question is, does Tudyk seem like the kind of guy you want in a movie with such an obviously solemn ending? I say we give him a shot.