Ronda Rousey and Netflix are preparing a biography movie About the expenator of the UFC and the former man of the WWE. With the confirmed project, they are looking for those who are going to shape, which leads us to the novelty we now bring from the hand of our partners of Deadline.
EXCLUSIVE: After setting up her biopic project with Netflix and Chernin Entertainment, Ronda Rousey is now ready to tag in the person to direct the film adaptation of her bestselling memoirs: Augustine Frizzell https://t.co/WycGG0wdC8
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Unique: After having launched his biopic project with Netflix and Chernin Entertainment, Ronda Rousey is already ready to choose who will be responsible for directing the film adaptation of his successful memories. Fuentes report Deadline that Augustine Frizzell will be the director of the movie based on the Memories My Fight/Your Fight and Our Fight, co -written by Rousey with her sister Maria Burns Ortiz. Chernin Entertainment will produce the project.
Deadline was the first medium to inform how this package was armed, starting with Rousey's work in the WME Stories Development Department, where he learned about script structure and technique. After reading dozens of people of others, Finally he wrote his in just seven days, surprising his agents, who could not believe that he was his first experience as a screenwriter. The script was soon taken to the market, and Chernin moved quickly to close a meeting and join as a producer.
When it was time to choose director, all those involved agreed that it should be a woman who told Rousey's story. After meeting with several candidates, Frizzell impressed all with his vision for the film. Rousey's fan long before directing cinema and television, it is said that Frizzell had already read both memoirs even before they called him for the meeting, and immediately knew that this work had to be his. In addition to admirer, Muay Thai trains in her spare time and is very familiar with the world from which UFC ex -champion comes.
Netflix already had narrow links with Frizzellwho was recently chosen to direct four of the eight episodes of the next service series, The Boroughs. With the production of the Duffer brothers, the series created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews is a high priority for the platform.
Rousey's project was originally developed in Paramount in 2015, when the study acquired the rights of My Fight/Your Fight. After several changes of management within the study, the rights ended up expired, and It was Netflix who recovered them thanks to the impulse of executive Michelle Evans, Rousey fan for years.
The interesting here, given the time elapsed since the publication of the first memories, is that Rousey has already written a second, Our Fight, who deepens even more in his life. Some of the new details include its first defeat against Holly Holm and the suicidal ideas that followed it; his history of brain shocks since before his career in MMA; and his conflicting relationship with his coach Edmond Tarverdyan.
As for Frizzell, His great opportunity came with his debut in the feature film Never Goin 'Backwhich premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 and was distributed that same year by A24. The film was nominated for the John Cassavetes award at the Independent Spirit Awards of 2019. He also directed the pilot of the successful HBO Euphoria series, and the movie The Last Letter from Your Lover for Studiocanal and Netflix. Frizzell is represented by WME.
