The 5 News Week: A Ric Flair Biopic In The Works!?, AEW Has A "Back-up" Plan Unless They Can't Film Shows.
A Ric Flair Biopic In The Works!?
Movies about notable figures are interesting because the actor is essentially portraying a real-life character and depending on the subject matter, it is surreal to think that moment actually happened in real life.
It's no secret that biopics do get some award buzz and in most cases, they win major categories particularly in the acting side. A biopic that could be interesting is based on a person who goes by the name of Ric Flair.
The nature boy spoke with SiriusXM Busted Open and he specifically mentioned that WWE along with The Rock (assuming it's his production team that's involved) are working a movie about him (from The Score):
"I talked to Dwayne and Dany Garcia ... and Hiram Garcia and they're gonna collaborate, the last time I heard, for all this stuff and make a movie with the WWE (about) me with Sue Levison, who now is with WWE and is doing a fabulous job. Sue's got a great background," Flair said (segment starts around the 33-minute mark). "As soon as everything gets rolling again after that, they'll make that movie. I am looking forward to that because I'll have a lot of input."
A biopic I would like to see happen on the big screen is ECW or Extreme Championship Wrestling.
The reason being is that it not only has made an impact in the industry but as well as influencing WWE's tone within their storylines and creating prototype versions of WWE's most famous personalities like Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mick Foley. It's a movie with the right script and the right director can be executed greatly.
I wanna end this story with a quick reminder. Just because a movie is announced to be in development, that doesn't mean the movie will happen. It may finish the pre-production side of things but the project might end immediately before they start shooting.
AEW Has A "Back-up" Plan Unless They Can't Film Shows.
We live in a unique time right now and as such, the biggest entertainment niches among other industries, have pressed the pause button on their upcoming activities except for two companies. WWE and AEW.
From Wrestling Observer Newsletter and Dave Meltzer (from 411mania), All Elite Wrestling has their shows taped from April 8th to the 15th and has a backup plan in case this all goes South.
Wade Keller over at PWtorch (from Cultaholic) mentioned that AEW wrapped a taping before midnight last Thursday in Norcross, GA before the state issued a stay at home order for non-essential business and the company, according to his sources, has quote…
"enough footage taped to create storyline-advancing matches that can fill two hours of weekly TV for TNT every Wednesday night for weeks if not months if necessary."
I'm assuming this is the back-up plan but now, it's been revealed reportedly with a different publication in PWtorch. Unless Dynamite is an hour a week show (which It obviously isn't), I don't actually believe that they have content in the can for months. Maybe a few weeks but like I said, definitely not "months".
Money In The Bank 2020 Not Happening According To Rumours.
This year's Money In The Bank show ain't happening according to WrestleVotes for obvious reasons but the tweet from WrestleVotes before this basically said that WWE are thinking of taking a break after mania weekend which if I'm being honest, will be a good move especially for the talent.
Wrestlemania 36 Quick Predictions.
Since I'm too lazy to write a 2,000-word predictions post, I thought it would be a good idea to give my quick predictions on Wrestlemania 36. Whether the show sucks or not, it is a Wrestlemania that will be remembered. My picks are displayed in bold letters. Here we go.
Rhea Ripley vs. Charlotte Flair for the NXT Women's Championship
Brock Lesnar vs. Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship.
Goldberg vs. Braun Strowman for the WWE Universal Championship.
Becky Lynch vs. Shayna Baszler for the Raw Women's Championship
John Cena vs. "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt In A Firefly Fun House match.
Bayley vs. Lacey Evans vs. Naomi vs. Sasha Banks vs. Tamina for the SmackDown Women's Championship.
The Undertaker vs. AJ Styles In A Boneyard match.
Kevin Owens vs. Seth Rollins.
The Miz and John Morrison vs. The New Day vs. The Usos In A Ladder match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship.
The Street Profits vs. Austin Theory and Angel Garza for the Raw Tag Team Championship
Aleister Black vs. Bobby Lashley.
Elias vs. King Corbin.
Edge vs. Randy Orton In A Last Man Standing match.
Sami Zayn vs. Daniel Bryan for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
The Kabuki Warriors vs. Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship.
Otis vs. Dolph Ziggler.
Former WWE Creative Member Freddie Prince Jr. On Getting Burnout In His Behind The Scenes Run With WWE.
I know the younger fans are reading the title above like "Who?" and the older fans seeing this like "Why do I care about an irrelevant movie star's opinion on his time with WWE?".
However you feel about him, the reason why I picked this story up is that one, it tells yet another interesting story regarding what goes on before they type their ideas into a computer or physically write them.
And two, it's inspiring to see someone who left the industry to take care of his family and his mental health.
Speaking to the Self-helpless podcast, a self-help show with 3 comedians as hosts (interestingly, a fan of the show told the story of his/her therapist recommended the podcast) the former WWE creative member talked about his career from a mental health standpoint.
In that career, he mentioned his tenure with WWE and how he dealt with burnout over there (I mean, why would I pick this story). Here's what he said:
"{Regarding Burnout} For Whatever reason, I go too hard no matter what it is and I burn and they warned me at WWE. Vince {McMahon} even bought me in his office and he said: "hey, you're doing great". All my stories were there pay-per-view at one of these pay-per-views and that's how good a job I was doing for him and I was really making progress and he brought me in his office so I'm thinking to tell me how awesome I am and he's gonna give me like a bonus of sweet cash {the hosts laugh} ya know what I mean?"
He then continues on one of his motivating factors as to why he left WWE:
"And now I'm like because this was a cutthroat job. 90% of the people there hated me. Did not want me there. It took until I left for them to like me you know what I mean? Once they liked me I was like, "Ah-ha, f**k you" {The hosts laugh}. So, I go in and he sits me down and he goes, "{In Freddie's Vince voice} Uh How you doing, Freddie?" I said "I'm good, what's going on? Jim's {Vince's assistant} making me feel like this is a bad meeting" and he goes, "well, it's not good" and so now I'm like "if I get fired, I'm literally gonna go off on this old-timer". He {Vince} goes, "I've seen this a million times" he's like "you're a great young writer" he's like "but you're gonna burn out, I don't want you to. I want you to stick around in the company". I looked up and I said the same thing you guys would say "oh, I'm fine, I'm fine, I got it" and then 4 weeks later I quit".
I create projects for a living (I'm a web designer that's why) and when I try to do more on top of maintaining this website, I get burnout and it's something that requires a week of recovery at least. So, shout out to Freddie Prince Jr. and his honesty in this topic. Highly recommend this listen and I'll embed it below.
If you somehow stumbled around this site and want to use the transcript, please credit this site and its original source.
What do you think about the news I just reported and follow me on the tweets @omartheplayaguy. Anyways, stay safe smarks.
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