Watch first teaser trailer for Andre The Giant film (video)

HBO and Bill Simmons are teaming up to do sports documentaries, and the first teaser trailer for the first rendition looking at the life of wrestler “Andre The Giant” has been released.

ESPN’s 30 for 30 film series was originally the brainchild of Bill Simmons, and it continues to run well very well today even though he no longer works for the network. Competing on that front seems foolish, but HBO and Simmons are teaming up to move into the sports documentary space and their first foray together will be a profile of legendary professional wrestler Andre The Giant.

Simmons spoke to Variety about the project, the scope of the story and director Jason Hehir, who he worked with on some 30 for 30 films at ESPN.

"We always hear about unicorns these days – Andre was the ultimate unicorn.  He’s a true legend.  Everyone who ever crossed paths with him has an Andre story – and usually four or five.  I’m delighted to join forces with Jason Hehir and WWE so we can capture Andre’s amazing story once and for all.”"

Andre The Giant was of course literally a giant, diagnosed with acromegaly (gigantism) that explained his massive size. The film is set to feature original interviews with a wide array of people from Andre’s life, including WWE chairman Vince McMahon, “The Princess Bride” director Rob Reiner and his brothers in France.

HBO has come out with the first teaser trailer for “Andre The Giant”, which is set to be released in April of 2018.

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Appropriately tabbed during his wrestling career as the “Eighth Wonder of the World”, standing an announced 7-foot-4 and weighing God only knows how much exactly, Andre Roussimoff was just 46 years old when he passed away due to congestive heart failure in January of 1993. He was the sole inaugural inductee into the WWF/WWE Hall of Fame that same year.