Posted on 6/24/125 by Colin Vassallo
Deadline is reporting that Augustine Frizzell has been
selected to direct the Ronda Rousey Netflix biopic based on
Rousey’s memoirs My Fight/Your Fight and Our Fight, which
she co-wrote with her sister Maria Burns Ortiz.
Rousey penned her own script in a week according to
Deadline, learning the structure of screenwriting after she
worked in WME’s story group department.
Frizzell is reportedly a huge Ronda Rousey fan and Deadline
stated that everyone involved in the project wanted a woman
to direct it. She had also read both Rousey’s books before
she even got the call to discuss directing.
The project got off the ground in 2015 under Paramount but
their rights for it lapsed and Netflix swooped in to take
over the movie.