Kurt Angle Names Actors Who Could Be Part Of Movie About His Life
The incredible life of Kurt Angle will lead into a movie with the Olympic Hero sharing details about who could be part of it.
Pro wrestling fans regard Kurt Angle as one of the greatest of all time. The 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist went on to have a Hall of Fame career in WWE and TNA.
Even though Angle will likely be remembered mostly for his first WWE run from late 1999 to mid-2006, he spent more years with TNA from late 2006 to 2016. Angle returned to WWE for a final run that saw him lose his final match to Baron Corbin at WrestleMania 35 in 2019.
The 56-year-old Angle is a married father of five who is now working on a movie about his life. During an appearance on Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast, Angle spoke about the film while revealing that it would be about his pre-WWE life as an amateur wrestler.
“I dove into this movie that I’m having done about my life’s sports story. The directors are Eshom Nelms and Ian 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 gonna start picking the cast soon. This movie’s only about my Olympics story, not my WWE story.
There’re gonna be actually two movies, ‘Angle 1’ and ‘Angle 2’. One is for the Olympics, and the other one’s after, my WWE and TNA career, everything after that. It was just too much to put in one movie.”
As he continued, Kurt Angle revealed more about the movie, including a potential role for legendary actor Michael Keaton.
“We have in mind Michael Keaton to play John du Pont. Jon Bernthal, my nephew, is gonna play my father, which will be really cool. [Asked who will play him.] Right now, it’s a Canadian kid, believe it or not, Gabe LaBelle, we’ve been pushing that. 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.”
Angle said that they were planning to film in late spring of 2025 and they were looking for investors while the cast would be chosen soon. Angle was told that it shouldn’t be difficult to find investors for the film. Angle said that the directors want him to be heavily involved in the film.
Kurt Angle Thinks His Career Deserves More Credit
During a recent interview, Kurt Angle explained why he deserves more credit for having a legendary career in pro wrestling and his TNA run shouldn’t be ignored when talking about the best wrestlers ever.
“I always get, ‘You know, Kurt Angle would have been the best of all time if he would have stuck in the WWE and wrestled there for 20 years.’ That may be true, but what’s the difference?
I wrestled in TNA for 11 of my 20 years, and I think that should be added on. I had a better career in TNA. I was wrestling guys like AJ Styles and Samoa Joe and Sting. I had a lot better career in TNA because I came into my own.
When you’re a professional wrestler, it takes you about six or seven years to really master your craft. That’s when I left WWE after six years. I went to TNA and I was a man on a mission there. I just did incredibly well there.”
Kurt Angle remains on good terms with WWE and often appears when they head to his hometown of Pittsburgh although it’s not known when he might appear on WWE TV again.