Benoit Murder/Suicide Saga Optioned for Movie

Lost Colony Entertainment, a TV/movie production company, announced that it has picked up the rights to wrestling author Irv Muchnick's book on Chris Benoit's death.

"Writer/Producer/Director Richard O'Sullivan has optioned the exclusive film and television rights to author Irvin Muchnick's acclaimed book 'Chris & Nancy: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling's Cocktail of Death,'" Lost Colony said in a press release.

O'Sullivan acknowledged in the release that the movie announcement comes at a time when former WWE
CEO Linda McMahon is running for U.S. Senate in Connecticut, but said the movie is not "politically motivated."

O'Sullivan said the McMahons will be depicted as characters in the movie, which will capture Benoit's WWE career and events leading up to the tragic murder-suicide in June 2007...More?

source: pwtorch.com