Ronda Rousey will play herself in biopic

28 year old Ronda Rousey is making quite the name for herself, currently dominating the field of MMA with her crushing victories against all comers, with the latest being a 34 second takedown of Brazilian fighter Bethe Correia in July.

She's also been getting involved in the world of acting, with her first ever on screen role in The Expendables 3 in 2014 and more roles in Furious 7 and the Entourage movie this year. And now she's taking on her biggest acting challenge yet - playing herself in a major biopic.

The word is that Paramount has snapped up the rights to her autobiography My Fight/Your Fight and has Mark Bomback (Insurgent, Total Recall) already working on the adaptation. But the weirdest element has to be the fact that Rousey is set to play herself in an account of her biggest fights to date, the loss of her father at a young age and what it takes to be the best in the world.

Now Rousey is a charasmatic character and comes across great in interviews but her big screen appearances to date have been pretty limited and hardly inspiring. That said, she was good fun in Entourage playing a fictionalised version of herself and there's no doubt she's be well able for the physical stuff on screen.

With the real person so close to the production you can pretty presume the film is going to be a fairly sugar coated view of her life so far, more of a kind of fan service than anything else but as a big screen version of an already subjective account maybe that's just what people want? Time will tell.

Rousey will next be seen in Peter Berg's Mile 22 in 2016 which also sees Mark Wahlberg team up with The Raid star Iko Uwais. That sounds weird.