Hulk Hogan never got the biopic treatment while he was alive.

The WWE legend, who died Thursday at age 71, was supposed to be played by Chris Hemsworth in a Netflix movie, but the project was scrapped entirely by the time Hogan passed away.

TMZ reported that the pro-wrestler died after “a cardiac arrest” call was placed from his home in Clearwater, Fla.

The biopic about Hogan was first announced by Netflix in February 2019, with Hemsworth, 41, to star and Todd Phillips set to direct.

The Hollywood Reporter reported at the time that John Pollono and Scott Silver were writing the script. Silver, 60, and Phillips, 54, co-wrote Joaquin Phoenix’s “Joker,” which came out that same year.

The biopic, per Deadline, was going to “center on the rise of Hogan, real name Terry Bollea, and his ‘Hulkamania’ both in wrestling and as a pop culture icon.”

The outlet also confirmed that Hogan’s life rights were acquired in the deal and that he joined the project as a consultant and executive producer.

However, years went by, and no progress was made on the film, due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic causing production delays in Hollywood in 2020.

Hemsworth gave an update on potentially playing Hogan on the big screen in a June 2023 interview with Chris Van Vliet.

“Let’s hope. I don’t know what is happening with it at this point,” the “Thor” star stated. “But there is a good story there I would love to tell.”

“I know Todd Phillips has been deep with The Joker and we have had conversations,” Hemsworth added. “Fingers crossed.”

A year later, Phillips officially confirmed that the biopic was dead.

“I love what we were trying to do, but that’s not going to come together for me,” the director told Variety in August 2024 while promoting “Joker 2.”

During an appearance on the “PDB Podcast” in October 2024, Hogan explained why his biopic never came to fruition.

“They kind of missed a beat in the contract. There was a payment that wasn’t placed at the right time,” he claimed nine months before his death, adding that the film’s script “was amazing.”

“Scott Silver, who wrote the script for ‘Joker,’ ‘Wolf of Wall Street,’ a bunch of other movies, said, ‘This is the best thing I’ve ever written,’” Hogan recalled. “When I read it, I went, ‘Oh my god, this is really good.’”

The “3 Ninjas” star continued: “At the time, I was in a space where I told him the positive stuff about wrestling and the negative stuff about wrestling. Spent about three years with this writer going back and forth. When I read it, it was just very, very dark, if that would be the right word. But it was probably what the public may want to see. When I read it I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, if this thing comes out …’”

“There was talk that Chris Hemsworth had never played a real person before and he could probably win an Oscar, this thing is so powerful,” Hogan added.

But Hogan explained that he was worried the biopic would ultimately be “the last thing people remember me for.”

“So I just was moving forward at the time, and when they business-wise missed a date, there was an option for me to pull out — and I did,” he revealed.

The sports icon said at the time that he would still do the film with the same script, but acknowledged there’s other avenues to share his life story.

“There’s also documentary, a check and balance system, there’s also a four-hour block of TV like the OJ [Simpson] stuff to tell the real story,” Hogan noted.

“The check and balance system, what it did do was it took me right up to the time I turned bad guy. Until I turned into ‘Hollywood Hogan.’ So if this movie did blow through the roof that they expected it would, then there would be another one which would be really cool.”

Hogan also made it clear he wanted “creative control” over his biopic and that the film needed to “be a balance.”

When the host asked Hogan if someone could make a film about him without his permission, the WWE legend replied, “They can do it, but they could be in a really bad position legally if they don’t have me involved.”

“There’s so many hills and valleys when you do something without someone’s permission,” he added.

The Post reached out to Netflix and Hemsworth for comment.