Real wrestling fans know anyone hoping to make a television show based on the professional wrestling boom of the 1980s will be hard pressed to beat Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling. The Saturday morning cartoon series featured Hogan and some of the World Wrestling Federation's other good guys battling Rowdy Roddy Piper and a team of bad guys. And while it might seem like I'm joking, it was the first thing I - and many other wrestling fans - will think of when they hear the news that super-prodcuer Jerry Bruckheimer has teamed up with former wrestling superstar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to produce a pilot based on professional wrestling in the 1980s for NBC. The series will be a drama and explore the golden age of wrestling where the sport went from a regional attraction to world wide sensation. Read more after the jump. Deadline [1] broke the news of this deal,...
- 8/24/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
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