Ronda Rousey and a former UFC/WWE star join forces for Netflix project off-camera
According to reports, Ronda Rousey, a former WWE and Ex-UFC fighter, will write the screenplay for her Netflix biography.
The two memoirs written by the former women’s bantamweight champion, My Fight/Your Fight and Our Fight, will serve as the basis for the film.
According to Deadline, Chernin Entertainment is set to produce the biography, though that agreement has not yet been finalized.
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Rousey, 37, is rumored to have refined her scripting abilities under the tutelage of WME executive Adam Novak.
She eventually developed her own screenplay in seven days, having read thirty to forty scripts, according to the article.
According to Deadline, the former MMA fighter will now “adapt the script” for her Netflix biopic.
After Paramount acquired the rights to Rousey’s debut novel, My Fight/Your Fight, in 2015, the behemoth of streaming services inked a contract with her.
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However, the project was abandoned, which gave Netflix the opportunity to purchase the rights over ten years later. These rights are rumored to include Our Fight, which she published in the interim.
It is not anticipated that the California native would play the lead role in the film.
Rousey, meantime, recently talked about her infertility struggles.
As she talked about her IVF experience with the former UFC star and her husband Travis Browne, she started crying. They had recently welcomed their baby La’akea.
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“I went through IVF, four cycles of IVF to be able to get eight embryos because we wanted to have like three or four kids,” Rousey shared.
“And the first one that we used actually worked. That’s, you know, La’akea, my daughter now.
“But yeah, we’re in the process of doing it right now, and I just got news yesterday that our first cycle didn’t work.”
In 2019, Rousey disclosed that she experienced two miscarriages subsequent to nearly losing a finger during the taping of a 9-1-1 episode.
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“I found out I was pregnant right before the show started filming, and then my finger got chopped off from a boat door falling on it,” she said.
However, a few weeks later, I miscarried, so I’ve always felt a little guilty about it.
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“I wanted to keep doing dangerous stuff while I was pregnant because I thought that made me cool.
“Then I was just depressed and drinking and smoking and not taking care of myself, then I got pregnant right away again, and then we never even saw a heartbeat that time.
“But I wasn’t expecting anything more because I just wasn’t taking care of myself during that time.”
