Kurt Angle recently gave an update on the movies in the works about him and who is considering for key characters. Angle appeared on Talk is Jericho and talked about the films, which will be split between his amateur wrestling career and his time in pro wrestling. He noted that Michael Keaton, Jon Bernthal, and Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans, Saturday Night) are being eyed to play John Du Pont, Angle’s late father, and Angle himself, respectively. You can see highlights below:
On the movies: “I’ve been pretty much dove into this movie I’m having done about my life’s sports story. Yeah, the directors are Ian and Eshom Nelms. They’re really talented directors, the reason why I picked them is because they were wrestlers in high school and college. So they understand my sport. So, we got the ball rolling with that. And now we’re getting investors and we’re going to start picking the cast soon.
“And this movie’s only about my Olympic story, not my WWE story. There’s going to be actually two movies, Angle 1 and Angle 2. One is for the Olympics, and the other one’s after, [covering] my WWE and TNA career and everything after that. So, it was just too much to put in one movie, so they wanted to split it in two.”
On the potential cast: “It’ll be a scripted movie. We have in mind Michael Keaton to play John du Pont while Jon Bernthal, my nephew, is gonna play my father, which would be really cool… [Bernthal] married my niece. Right now, it’s actually a Canadian kid [to play Angle himself], believe it or not. Gabe LaBelle, we’ve been pushing that. I don’t know if you know who he is. He did the Saturday Night movie. He did a lot of movies with Jon Bernthal. He’s a really popular upcoming actor. The thing is, he needs to put a little more size on his body, but I don’t think that’ll be a problem for him.”
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