Current Events > Major Details Revealed From Vince McMahon Biopic Script (SPOILERS)

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Bad_Mojo
04/27/17 11:14:03 PM
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PWInsider notes that McMahon and WWE Studios, who are attached to the project, will obviously have full approval over the script and that, as is standard among projects in development, the script will be going through several changes including at least one page one rewrite. That being said, even complete rewrites tend to include some elements of the story and the current script includes several utter fictions regarding the WWE CEO’s life.

According to the site, the script starts with Vince McMahon, Jr. in the 1970s married to Linda McMahon, who is working as a waitress in a strip clup. Vince is frustrated, as his different jobs aren’t going anywhere and when he visits his father Vince Sr., he is further furstrated by the fact that the WWWF is struggling. He tells Vince Sr. — who is presented as a profanity-heavy old-time wrestling promoter who talks down to Vince — that his audience isn’t interested in wrestling and wants theatrics and drama. Vince Sr. demands that Vince not get involved in wrestling; in a later draft Vince is banished to Bangor, Maine to do local promoter work and is, in the site’s words, “blown away” when he sees Led Zeppelin perform.

There is also a scene in the strip club where Linda tells Vince she is pregnant (this would be with Shane) and Vince says the mother of his child won’t work in such a place. They leave and when the manager tries to stop Linda he ends up getting beat up by Vince. The script makes it evident that Linda is turned on by the incident. Linda also tells Vince at one point in what is described as a “wink-wink line” that she and Vince would never be political types but that maybe their kids will be at some point.

Vince is eventually brought on as an announcer when Vince Sr. gets on WWOR TV and doesn’t want to give his announcer a union wage. Vince eventually negotiates a $1 million buyout of Vince Sr. and keeps Gorilla Monsoon on, who is a much bigger character in earlier drafts and described as being more along the lines of what Pat Patterson actually did in the company. Monsoon ends up on the stand during the steroid trial and plays the role Hulk Hogan did in real life as the former Vince ally pitted against him. A later draft puts Hogan back in that role, with both versions described as being “just like Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in Goodfellas facing down his former mob pals when he testifies against them.”

Among the fictional parts of the script are:

* All drafts of the script include Vince Sr. passing away during the steroid trial when he actually died before WrestleMania I. In both versions of the script, Vince makes amends with his father in a scene before Vince Sr.’s passing which leads to a dramatic monologue of Vince on the stand talking about how “the government shouldn’t be in the business of his and other blue-collar people.” This makes the jury sympathetic to him and he is cleared of all charges.

* After Vince is found not guilty, he is in a limo with his family. After all his infidelities have been exposed during the trial, they go off on him in the limo for being a terrible person and then tell him that’s the making of their next great heel. This, of course, supplants the Montreal Screwjob as the reason why the Mr. McMahon comes to exist.

* Eric Bischoff is not found in the script, although Ted Turner’s rivalry is touched on including the “I’m in the ‘rassling business” phone call. The second draft included more on the Monday Night War.

* One sequence shows Vince discovering Junkyard Dog as a construction worker, Roddy Piper in jail, Jimmy Snuka as a porn actor and so in, turning them into wrestlers. It also features Vince discovering Andre the Giant as the owner of a French restaurant in Montreal and bringing him into the business, and a later draft shows Vince stealing Hogan from the AWA and training him.

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Bad_Mojo
04/27/17 11:14:42 PM
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There are also scenes that include:

* Shane and Stephanie McMahon being taunted by classmates in high school over the steroid trials and beating their tormentors in a school hallway, “a scene right out of a pro wrestling battle.”

* Several sexual and other provocative elements including a brawl between Randy Savage and Roddy Piper on a plane that is depicted as brought on by roid rage, Hogan dealing with steroid use hurting his sex drive and genital size and a scene where a female wrestler propositions Vince. Vince then tells Linda in front of the wrestler instead of taking her up on the offer, which leads to Linda taking Vince into the stands at Madison Square Garden and doing it herself.

* The infamous Randy Savage/Stephanie McMahon rumor is touched on in a scene where Savage and Vince have a conversation about how the former is popular with women the same age as Stephanie. Savage then tells Vince he would never think of touching her.

* The script notes in the opening that the story is “as true as anything in professional wrestling” and closes with a text blurb about how successful WWE has has been in recent years.

The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, Bob Backlund, Bruno Sammartino, Jay Strongbow, Baron Mikel Scicluna and many others feature in the script. As of now, the process is in early development and new writers will likely be brought on. There isn’t currently a timetable for a production start date.

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I4NRulez
04/27/17 11:17:13 PM
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Sounds like its gonna Vince propaganda and not a true story about how big a scumbag he is
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Xeno14
04/27/17 11:18:50 PM
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wow what crap. I hope this is fake

Andre was a well known wrestler before the WWF, and from what i've heard, much better in terms of talent since he wasn't forced into a limited moveset. Its fucking shameful to gloss over the career of the dead just for Vince.

also is it gonna cover vince's help covering up snuka killing his girlfriend
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Darmik
04/27/17 11:19:39 PM
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This movie sounds like a trainwreck haha. Making Vince into some underdog hero.

Did Linda really work in a strip club?
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ChrisHansen59
04/27/17 11:19:55 PM
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Bad_Mojo
04/27/17 11:20:14 PM
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I4NRulez posted...
Sounds like its gonna Vince propaganda and not a true story about how big a scumbag he is



PWInsider notes that McMahon and WWE Studios, who are attached to the project, will obviously have full approval over the script


What do you expect? lol

It's not like any of these other biopics have been honest. They all have lies in them
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FlashOfLight
04/27/17 11:21:03 PM
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Bad_Mojo posted...
Vince eventually negotiates a $1 million buyout of Vince Sr. and keeps Gorilla Monsoon on, who is a much bigger character in earlier drafts and described as being more along the lines of what Pat Patterson actually did in the company. Monsoon ends up on the stand during the steroid trial and plays the role Hulk Hogan did in real life as the former Vince ally pitted against him. A later draft puts Hogan back in that role,


I hate how they always change these things around.
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VinceMcMahon
04/27/17 11:21:41 PM
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You sons-a-bitches weren't there when this all happened. You have no right to call my biopic fake, damnit!

You'll still watch it. You'll ALLLLL watch it!!!
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Bad_Mojo
04/27/17 11:22:13 PM
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Xeno14 posted...
Andre was a well known wrestler before the WWF, and from what i've heard, much better in terms of talent since he wasn't forced into a limited moveset. Its fucking shameful to gloss over the career of the dead just for Vince.


Among the fictional parts of the script are:


* One sequence shows Vince discovering Junkyard Dog as a construction worker, Roddy Piper in jail, Jimmy Snuka as a porn actor and so in, turning them into wrestlers. It also features Vince discovering Andre the Giant as the owner of a French restaurant in Montreal and bringing him into the business, and a later draft shows Vince stealing Hogan from the AWA and training him.

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Darmik
04/27/17 11:23:09 PM
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Bad_Mojo posted...
I4NRulez posted...
Sounds like its gonna Vince propaganda and not a true story about how big a scumbag he is



PWInsider notes that McMahon and WWE Studios, who are attached to the project, will obviously have full approval over the script


What do you expect? lol

It's not like any of these other biopics have been honest. They all have lies in them


Sadly this is probably one of those times where the true story is way more interesting than any of this drivel. Though the subplot of Linda constantly getting turned on by Vince and having impromptu sex with him sound hilarious. Especially if it's graphic.
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Bad_Mojo
04/27/17 11:24:24 PM
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FlashOfLight posted...
I hate how they always change these things around


Maybe Hogan didn't sign off on his likeness being portrayed in this until later? I don't know how that stuff works.
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Darmik
04/27/17 11:29:58 PM
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Bad_Mojo posted...
FlashOfLight posted...
I hate how they always change these things around


Maybe Hogan didn't sign off on his likeness being portrayed in this until later? I don't know how that stuff works.


Probably something like that. I think the relationship between those two has its ups and downs.

I wonder when the movie finishes. Maybe around the Monteal Screwjob time or when he starts his Austin feud? Seems like it'll end with him becoming a heel for the company (probably seen as a heroic sacrifice or something lol).
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Xeno14
04/28/17 12:31:13 AM
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Bad_Mojo posted...
Xeno14 posted...
Andre was a well known wrestler before the WWF, and from what i've heard, much better in terms of talent since he wasn't forced into a limited moveset. Its fucking shameful to gloss over the career of the dead just for Vince.


Among the fictional parts of the script are:


* One sequence shows Vince discovering Junkyard Dog as a construction worker, Roddy Piper in jail, Jimmy Snuka as a porn actor and so in, turning them into wrestlers. It also features Vince discovering Andre the Giant as the owner of a French restaurant in Montreal and bringing him into the business, and a later draft shows Vince stealing Hogan from the AWA and training him.

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yeah its fictional, but if you are going to use someones likeness, make it actually like them. andre carried the company, at least get his past right. *unless they have something like a subtitle that this is bullshit for those scenes
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FlashOfLight
04/28/17 12:38:58 AM
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VinceMcMahon cameo in the thread, how bout that.

On a side note, if this movie were attempted to be made earlier, I always thought Ed O'Neill could have been cast as a good version for Vince McMahon, other than not really being bulked up, but otherwise he can pass for a Hollywood version of Vince McMahon in terms of appearance.
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Mal_Fet
04/28/17 12:40:17 AM
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Nothing about the Monday Night War?

Laaame
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BillyKidd
04/28/17 12:47:06 AM
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Darmik posted...
Bad_Mojo posted...
I4NRulez posted...
Sounds like its gonna Vince propaganda and not a true story about how big a scumbag he is



PWInsider notes that McMahon and WWE Studios, who are attached to the project, will obviously have full approval over the script


What do you expect? lol

It's not like any of these other biopics have been honest. They all have lies in them


Sadly this is probably one of those times where the true story is way more interesting than any of this drivel. Though the subplot of Linda constantly getting turned on by Vince and having impromptu sex with him sound hilarious. Especially if it's graphic.


Yea, but I don't think Vince wants people to see him as a 6yr old getting his ass kicked by his trailer park step-dad and later being sexually abused by his mom.
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Skye Reynolds
04/28/17 12:47:11 AM
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If I were to blatantly lie about something in a docudrama about Vince McMahon, I'd have a black WWE champion at some point.
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DanielCormier
04/28/17 12:47:31 AM
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Are they going to touch on the incest angle where he wanted to bone Stephanie?
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Bad_Mojo
04/28/17 12:57:02 AM
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DanielCormier posted...
Are they going to touch on the incest angle where he wanted to bone Stephanie?


It won't get that far into his life. Movie/Bio is expected to end around Screwjob, but I could see it ending with his trial
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iosifsvoboda
04/28/17 1:02:05 AM
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lol should be interesting
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