They’re Making A Vince McMahon Movie

Did you know, that they’re making a movie about the Genetic Jackhammer?

John Requa & Glenn Ficarra (“Focus,” “Crazy, Stupid, Love”) are set to helm a biopic about Vince McMahon, owner of World Wrestling Entertainment. Or the WWF, as it was known when it wasn’t insufferable girlie man shit.

But nonetheless, McMahon’s antics would make for a good story.

First, he bought out competitors and forced those who wouldn’t sell out of business. Then he faced off against the FBI in a steroid scandal. Then he made Steve Austin and The Rock in the Monday Night Wars, some of the best television ever, with muck slinging out front, and lawsuits backstage between both the WWF and WCW.

What they probably won’t cover in this movie however, is how exactly McMahon came to buy WCW for a paltry 2.4 million. Some argue that this was all WCW was worth, since they lost a TV contract. But this is ridiculous, because 9 months earlier WCW was valued at $500 million. And even then its owners refused to sell because they thought Fox’s offer (half a billion) wasn’t enough.

Former head WCW booker Kevin Sullivan, and others, have insisted that industrial sabotage was at play and the company was sold illegally… just another chapter in Vinny Mac’s story I suppose.