Ronda Rousey’s Memoirs To Be Adapted For Netflix Film, Rousey Wrote Script

Ronda Rousey’s memoirs are set to turned into a Netflix film, with Rousey herself having written the script. Deadline reports that the UFC and WWE alumna has signed a deal to adapt her books My Fight/Your Fight and Our Fight for a film at Netflix. Rousey wrote both books alongside her sister Maria Burns Ortiz.

Chernin Entertainment is expected to produce the film, though that deal has not yet closed. Netflix has declined comment on the matter.

The film was originally set at Paramount back in 2015 and was based on the rights to just her first book. Amid Paramount’s regime changes over the past several years, the rights returned back to Rousey and Netflix acquired the project which company executive Michelle Evenas championed the project.

Rousey is said to have pushed hard to make sure that she was the one who wrote the script for the film, and insiders close to the situation say that Rousey did a lot of work to understand what it would take to turn the memoirs into a script that studios would be interested in. She worked with WME story group executive Adam Novak to build her screenwriting skills and did coverage on 30 to 40 scripts that Novak sent, taking feedback about how to write a film that she used to apply to her own screenplay. Rousey is said to have written the script in just seven days which shocked her agents. Once the script was taken to market, Chernin Entertainment came on board.

Rousey has no plans to star in the film, according to the report, and casting is set to begin in the months to come.