WWE Champion Kurt Angles Reveals New Details About Biopic

Kurt Angle is unquestionably one of the great wrestlers of history, winning championships in everything from the NCAA to the Olympics to WWE and TNA. On a recent episode of the "Talk Is Jericho" podcast, Angle gave new details about a planned biopic of his life.

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Angle had previously shared his plans for a biographical film, revealing that production is expected to begin in 2024. The film will center on his remarkable journey to Olympic glory at the 1996 Olympics, where the wrestling Hall of Famer triumphed with a gold medal despite competing with a broken neck.

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"What I do now is, I dabble in movies. I got a movie coming up in January. I just did a movie last March," Angle told the "True Geordie" podcast. "I do some of that. I got a movie we're doing about my life story, which we're gonna start filming probably next year. It should be a pretty cool thing. I'll be able to help out with it, be an advisor, which is kind of cool. So I'm looking forward to that."

Now, Angle has revealed to Jericho that there are already plans for a sequel to the as-yet-untitled film. The second film will reportedly focus on his years as a professional wrestler.

"So we got the ball rolling with that, and now we're getting investors and we're going to start picking the cast soon," Angle told Jericho. "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's for the Olympics, one's for after, my WWE and TNA career, everything after that. It was just too much to put in one movie, so they wanted to split it in two."

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Angle also gave an explanation for how the directors of the upcoming film were picked.

"I've been pretty much building to this movie I'm having done about my life's sports story," Angle explained. "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."

Normally, two-part films are the territory of huge epics and massive sci-fi blockbusters, but when you've had a life as eventful as Kurt Angle, it seems one movie isn't enough.

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