The Ringer founder Bill Simmons has given an update on a docuseries on the life and career of Vince McMahon.
WWE first announced during its third-quarter 2020 financials call that they had teamed up with Netflix to air it with Simmons serving as the executive producer, while Chris Smith, best known for Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, was named the director. At the time, WWE touted it would be the highest-budgeted Netflix docuseries of all time.
While speaking at the Bloomberg Screentime event, Simmons noted that while McMahon will get to look at clips, he won’t be able to give notes before the final cut of the docuseries.
“We have this Vince McMahon documentary that we’ve been working on for three years, I think has a chance to be really great. I really think it has a chance to be the best one I’ve been involved with, and I’ll be interested to see what people think about that one because it took a lot of time and it was one where Netflix still has final cut of it and it’s a little more old school like with the 30 for 30 model. And I think it has a chance to be really special. He gets to see it, but he doesn’t get to change anything.”
Netflix has yet to announce a release date for the documentary.
