Roman Reigns' WWE Retirement Plans REVEALED (WWE News)

With a WrestleMania main event in his immediate future in just a matter of days, there’s now details on what lies ahead for Roman Reigns‘ wider WWE future.

In a just published Vanity Fair profile piece, in which the Tribal Chief spoke to VF’s Tom Kludt prior to this year’s Royal Rumble, Roman revealed his current WWE contract status and when he’s tentatively planning to call time on his in-ring career.

As Reigns explained, his current WWE deal is up in 2026 – after WrestleMania 42, to be a little more specific – and we may well only have another two or three years before he decides to hang up his boots.

“After I finish the contract that I’m in, we probably got another year or two max. Then it’s time to take on a less physical form of entertainment.”

In terms of that “less physical form of entertainment”, Roman openly talked about his aim to take on more acting roles, but also compared his approach to that of Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino is a filmmaker who famously methodically picks and develops his projects, often resulting in several years between QT releases, as highlighted by Tarantino’s most recent movie, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, now being six years old. For Reigns, he noted how he wants to wait for the right roles and not just “doing anything and everything” when time comes for him to call time on his wrestling career.

Across a widely varied interview, Roman Reigns also interestingly mentioned how he would’ve retired during the dark days of the COVID-19 pandemic had he not been allowed to change his character to what would ultimately become the Head of the Table, the Tribal Chief.

On that topic, Roman said:

“I was prepared to walk away if we weren’t going to be able to do what I felt was right for me creatively at the time.”

Even though he took a hiatus from WWE during the early days of the pandemic due to understandable health concerns, it seems unfathomable to think that Roman Reigns – the biggest star in the industry by then – would’ve decided to call it a day. Instead, WWE management were clearly happy to allow Roman to change things up, and he returned at SummerSlam 2023 and was soon paired up with the ever-nefarious Paul Heyman, marking a stark change from the tired Big Dog days of Reigns.

Roman Reigns, Movie Star

While it’s easy to see why Roman Reigns is eyeing an acting career post-wrestling, and easy to see why the movie industry would have significant interest in Roman, the OTC has already briefly dabbled his toes in the Hollywood water in recent years.

Most notable, the 39-year-old played Mateo Hobbs, the brother of Dwayne Johnson‘s Luke Hobbs, in 2019’s Fast & Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw. Roman has also had a minor role in 2020’s David Spade and Lauren Lapkus-fronted dark comedy The Wrong Missy, has been a part of a few WWE Studios productions, and has more recently signed on for The Pickup, an upcoming heist movie from director Tim Story (The Fantastic Four, Barbershop) that’s being headlined by Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson.

Of course, while Tinsel Town may become a more regular occurrence for Roman Reigns in years to come, first and foremost he faces off with CM Punk and Seth Rollins in the main event of WrestleMania 41 Night 1 this Saturday.