{"id":558356,"date":"2026-03-24T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/558356\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:58:08","slug":"wwe-news-aew-news-pro-wrestling-backstage-news-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/558356\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/georgestpierre.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image lazy\" alt=\"georges st-pierre\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-\/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A Georges St-Pierre biopic is in development with Quebec director Thomas Soto leading the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been considering telling my story for a moment now, and when we found this team it was clear to us that we wanted this to be told in a new creative way,\u201d said St-Pierre in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/georges-st-pierre-biopic-ufc-movie-1236696711\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The biopic will focus on GSP\u2019s journey to becoming one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightful.com\/wrestling\/georges-st-pierre-growing-up-i-wanted-to-become-a-wwe-wrestler-but-im-too-small\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">greatest MMA<\/a> fighters of all-time, a two-division champion who retired with a 26-2 record, avenging both losses in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon St-Jacques and Jean-Christophe Pelchat are the executive producers, while Bruno Rosato and Vito Balenzano are the producers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to tell the story of Georges behind GSP in a way that feels intimate, honest and deeply human,\u201d Soto said in a statement. \u201cTo me, bringing that story to the world is both a privilege and a responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casting will be announced later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Georges St-Pierre biopic is in development with Quebec director Thomas Soto leading the project. \u201cWe have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-558356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}