A movie telling Ronda Rousey’s life story is transferring ahead at Netflix and now the mission has a director connected.
Augustine Frizzell, who’s finest identified for engaged on the Emmy-winning HBO collection Euphoria, has been tapped to direct the biopic based mostly on Rousey’s life. The movie is predicated upon Rousey’s autobiography My Battle/Your Battle in addition to her latest e book Our Battle, which chronicles her rise to fame first as an Olympic bronze medalist in judo after which finally turning into one of many greatest stars within the UFC.
Deadline first reported the information.
Rousey celebrated the information on social media saying “one other step nearer to creating this dream a actuality.”
Along with her work on Euphoria, Frizzell additionally has ties to Netflix after she signed on to direct 4 of the eight episodes within the upcoming collection The Boroughs, which is being produced by Stranger Issues creators Ross and Matt Duffer.
Frizzell landed the gig directing Rousey’s nonetheless untitled biopic after pitching her concept for the film and all people was reportedly blown away by her concepts. It additionally helps that Frizzell was an avid Rousey fan throughout her combating profession, and the director really practices Muay Thai in her spare time.
Initially arrange at Paramount, Rousey finally scanned quite a few scripts about her life story, however she finally determined to pen the screenplay herself. After working together with her brokers at Endeavor and the story group division, Rousey reportedly wrote the script about her life in simply seven days earlier than turning it over.
Paramount initially purchased the rights to Rousey’s first e book, however the mission languished in growth. The rights deal finally lapsed, which allowed Netflix to swoop in and scoop up the mission and now the movie options much more of Rousey’s story after she launched her second e book that chronicles the primary lack of her profession to Holly Holm, affected by a extreme historical past of concussions and her eventual transfer into skilled wrestling at WWE.
Hailed as one of many faces of the UFC in the course of the peak of her profession, Rousey was a large famous person after she helped usher in girls’s MMA to the promotion. She defended her title a number of occasions whereas additionally crossing over into movies with appearances in motion pictures equivalent to Entourage and Livid 7.
With a director now in place, and a screenplay already completed, the subsequent step is probably going casting the place someone makes an attempt to fill Rousey’s footwear for the manufacturing.
