The docuseries on the life and career of Vince McMahon appears to be slated to premiere this year after years of development.
The project
WWE first announced during its third-quarter 2020 financials call that they had teamed up with Netflix to air it with Bill Simmons serving as the executive producer. Chris Smith, best known for Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, was named the director.
WWE touted it would be the highest-budgeted Netflix docuseries of all time. Simmons previously confirmed that while McMahon will get to look at clips, he won’t be able to give notes before the final cut of the docuseries.
The latest
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that he was interviewed for the project, and it will be out sooner than people think.
“Yeah, today I went to Los Angeles to do a Netflix taping. [About what?] Vince McMahon. So I guess what I can say, since I’m not supposed to say much about it, is that the Netflix series is going to be out sooner than you think. Okay, I guess that’s the best way to put it. I’ll know the date. I mean, I’ll be able to release the date pretty soon, and it’s soon. It’s a big freaking deal. And they’ve interviewed all kinds of people. And, I was told the most interesting person they’ve interviewed is Vince McMahon.”
Meltzer added, “I’ve done multiple tapings for this. This one was more to catch up on everything that’s happened since the last taping, which they thought, you know, I mean, the series, I guess the, you know, when it started and how it how it’s ended is completely different because when it started, it was just, Vince McMahon, the owner of the company. And now it’s, he’s not the owner of the company. And there are all of the reasons that he’s not the owner of the company. And there’s the payoffs and all that stuff, all that happened, well, they were years into this thing, into this documentary before all that stuff happened. And then they kind of had to redo everything, or you know, refocus on all kinds of new stuff.”
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