Mendez Brooks retired from the WWE in the midst of a legal dispute between the company and her husband over several issues.
Given those difficulties, it’s likely the WWE will not allow Mendez Brooks to use its likeness in the project, or anything else that might allude to the company if it can be helped.
With AJ Mendez Brooks looking to bring the biographical story of her career to a new medium, it will be interesting to see how much is said about her career in the WWE, assuming the project gets to that point.
That battle has been raging since CM Punk left the company in 2014, and court proceedings between the two parties are expected to continue in 2018.