Movie about the death of Owen Hart to be made

[Dave Youell]

The latest edition of Television Week features a profile on USA Network's Executive Vice President, Jeff Wachtel. He discussed some of the projects that the network has planned.

He mentioned films that are being produced for the network and one of the films mentioned was Ring of Lies, a movie about the death of Owen Hart and the lawsuit filed by his widow, Martha Hart.

The article mentions that the WWE left the USA network for TNN (now Spike) several years ago. Wachtel claims the film is not meant to take revenge on the WWE. The film is "inspired by a documentary about 'a 5-foot-2, 110-pound woman who basically brought the WWF to its knees."
There has been an A & E documentary on Owen's death as well as a book written by Martha entitled Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart.

After the settlement against the WWE was reached, Martha went on to found a charitable organization helping Canadian families in need, under Owen's name.

"The Owen Hart Story" had been in development since November 2002 by the FX Network in asscoiation with Paul A. Kaufman's Kaufman Co. for Artisan (the production company behind The Blair Witch Project). A deal was made in 2001 to bring the Owen Hart story to film. There is no word on whether or not this is the same project under a different network or a completely different project altogether.

Owen Hart passed away May 23, 1999 after a stunt at the WWF PPV Over the Edge went horribly wrong. He would have turned 39 last friday.

Credit: Mike Johnson @ PWInsider.com