Kurt Angle recently provided an update on the films about his life that are currently in development, along with potential actors for the roles.
During a recent appearance on the “Talk Is Jericho” podcast, Angle discussed the movies, which will focus on both his amateur wrestling background and his career in pro wrestling.
Angle mentioned that Michael Keaton, Jon Bernthal, and Gabriel LaBelle (from The Fabelmans and Saturday Night) are being considered to portray John Du Pont, his deceased father, and Angle himself, respectively.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast 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.”