A documentary on the late Terry Bollea a.k.a. Hulk Hogan is moving forward at Netflix.
Hogan died last July, and after his passing, Matt Belloni at Puck reported that Netflix had been in the middle of filming a documentary on the ex-wrestler.
Belloni reported that the docuseries was being directed by Bryan Storkel and produced by Words + Pictures in collaboration with WWE. The series is said to have over twenty hours of new interviews with Hogan.
Netflix’s Vice President of Sports, Gabe Spitzer, spoke with John Ourand on The Varsity podcast and mentioned the Hogan doc as one of its upcoming doc releases and speaking to the overall health of sports documentaries
For us, it’s really about access and authenticity. How can we surprise viewers? How are you letting them in in ways that they can’t just get on social media and other places? I think we’ve reached a tipping point in the “follow doc genre” as we can call it, where maybe there are too many of them now, so we have to be a bit pickier in terms of the ones we’re doing. Obviously, we have ‘Quarterback’, which we do with the NFL and Omaha Films, we are still doing seasons of ‘Drive to Survive’, we have ‘American’s Sweethearts’ on the Dallas Cowboys’ cheerleaders but outside of that there’s other incredible docs coming – Hulk Hogan, Mike Tyson, Deion Sanders, so there are plenty of good ones still out there.
WWE and Netflix collaborated for the ‘WWE Unreal’ doc series, which launched earlier this year, and a second season will drop on January 20 with five new episodes.
