Art: Kyle Starks, The Legend of Ricky Thunder. Used with permission.
Action comedy
The greatest wrestling movie about the greatest wrestling comic ever made, ever made.
Ricky Thunder is wrestling's world champion and the only man who doesn't know it's fake. When alien colonizers take his homemade belt literally, Earth's fate rides on his next match.
An original feature adaptation of “The Legend of Ricky Thunder” by three-time Eisner-nominated comic creator Kyle Starks. A feel-good, superstar-jammed action comedy piledriver to the face, aimed at the audience Netflix paid more than $5 billion to own: wrestling fans, who watched 525 million hours of WWE on Netflix in 2025.
- Writer/Dir
- Don Thacker, Emmy winner
- Attached
- Nic Nemeth as Ricky Thunder. Iconic WWE Superstar Dolph Ziggler, two-time World Heavyweight Champion and former TNA World Champion
- Source
- Kyle Starks, three-time Eisner-nominated comic creator
- Comps
- The Game Plan · Nacho Libre · Fighting with My Family
- Status
- Press announced · option current
- Script
- Screenplay in progress · sample available
- Seeking
- Finance · Sales agent · Distribution · Cast
| Budget | Worldwide | |
|---|---|---|
| The Game Plan 2007 | $22M | $146.6M |
| Nacho Libre 2006 | $32M | $99.3M |
| Fighting with My Family 2019 | $11M | $41.5M |
Budget and worldwide gross, The Numbers. Netflix deal: TKO filing, Jan 2024. 525M hours: Variety, Jan 2026.
- Format
- Feature
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Target rating
- PG-13
