Casting the Hulk Hogan movie

2. Steve Carell as Bobby Heenan

Steve Carell could capture some of the more comedic elements of Bobby Heenan's persona.

There are a lot of guys who could be in the conversation for Hulk Hogan’s greatest rival in professional wrestling.

We could consider Andre the Giant for his immense size, The Iron Sheik for representing the evil heel foreigner characters of his day and being the first man to lose a world title to Hogan, Randy Savage for sheer heat, Ric Flair for the debate of their time about who was the best in the business, or Sting for their iconic WCW storyline.

One guy who tends to get overlooked in these conversations is Bobby Heenan, who was never a physical rival for Hogan but was the heel mastermind manager behind so many of Hogan’s biggest rivalries in WWE (not to mention an antagonist from the broadcast table in WWE and WCW, to boot).

For this role, we’d need to see someone with a gift for irreverent gab. Channeling his most obnoxious work from The Office, Steve Carell could be a tremendous fit for this part, projecting Heenan’s brilliant heel swagger.