Hulk Hogan Sends Serious Warning to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

Hulk Hogan is no stranger to litigation, and now sources say he's willing to take legal action again—this time against Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

Affleck and Damon are producing an upcoming movie about Hogan's infamous courtroom battle with the website Gawker, and sources told TMZ that while the wrestler is "indifferent" about the project at the moment, he won't hesitate to sue if he feels that the film violates his privacy.

In 2016, the WWE star filed a lawsuit against Gawker after they posted video from a sex tape of Hogan and the wife of a friend, “shock jock” Bubba the Love Sponge. The footage also includes a racial epithet. Hogan won a $140 million verdict, sending Gawker into bankruptcy. The jury found that Gawker violated Hogan’s privacy by posting the footage, which was actually shot five years earlier, and that the celeb suffered severe emotional distress as a result.

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According to Variety, Affleck and Damon's production banner, Artists Equity, has acquired a screenplay written by Charles Randolph and based on Ryan Holiday’s book “Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intrigue.” The project is currently titled Killing Gawker.

Gus Van Sant—who worked with Affleck and Damon on Good Will Hunting—has been tapped to direct, and rumor has it that Affleck will be playing Hogan, though no official announcement has been made yet.

In 2023, Hogan married Sky Daily after a brief engagement, as Parade previously reported. Hogan shares two adult children—daughter Brooke and son Nick—with his first wife, Linda Hogan, whom he was married to for 24 years before their 2009 divorce.

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