I'm sure most of you have read by now, but for those that haven't, Liev Schrieber is signed on to play Benoit in the new film Crossface.
Should be interesting. However, what I'm looking forward to the most is the actors they choose to portray people like Vince, Triple H, and Eddie. I can only imagine that the real Triple H will pitch an idea like a new age No Holds Barred where he finally, FINALLY gets his dream match: Triple H vs Triple H. Hey-O!
Should be interesting. However, what I'm looking forward to the most is the actors they choose to portray people like Vince, Triple H, and Eddie. I can only imagine that the real Triple H will pitch an idea like a new age No Holds Barred where he finally, FINALLY gets his dream match: Triple H vs Triple H. Hey-O!
The title is Crossface?
ReplyDeleteClassy!
Wait I'm confused: Do I chant "Sabertooth!" or "Pegasus Kid!" at the screen?
ReplyDeleteI wasn't even aware there was an attempt to make a dramatized movie of this event, given it's significance was limited mostly to pro wrestling fans and gossip hounds.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to process that and come up with a reaction, and I believe the proper one is: "So it has come to this."
Liev Schrieber would make a great Triple H.
ReplyDeleteIt's based on the Randazzo book - oh man, that movie's gonna be wild! That book was a hilarious example of just throwing every insane wrestling story out there and seeing what stuck. I'm sure there's a lot of truth in it (and if even 20% of the book was truthful about Japanese dojos and whatnot - gross) but there was plenty of ill-defined, vaguely-sourced material in there.
ReplyDeleteRacking my brain for casting ideas. Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) as Jericho? John Leguizamo as Chavo would make me crease with laughter.
Chris Benoit gets a movie made about him.
ReplyDeleteIn your face, Kevin Nash!
Since the greatest thing ever is when the title of the movie is worked into the dialogue in a really contrived fashion, I'm really hoping there's a scene in which Benoit is about to leave the locker room for the final time and Michael Cole walks in and says, "Hey Chris, why the cross face?"
ReplyDeleteCot-ten Wea-ry...clap clap, clap clap clap...
ReplyDeleteThe problem with the Triple H vs Triple H match is that one of them has to lose. Triple H just can't have that.
ReplyDeleteBest of infinity as they both have to get their win back
ReplyDelete"Until tonight... I had never thought about it."
ReplyDelete*walks away sullenly*
If they stick to that book, it's going to be NC17 and no one will ever see it.
ReplyDeleteNo way. It'd be a draw, Flair/Steamboat style. They both get to win. Then WrestleMania is a 10 Stages of Hell PPV, where each match is a different stip between HHH & HHH. Then, they learn to love and form the tag-team:
ReplyDeleteHHHHHH
Has anyone seen Behind the Candleabra?? When Mat Damon gets his "face lift" in the movie he looked just like Jericho. So I nominate Matt Damon for Jericho.
ReplyDeleteMaybe "real" Triple H and "film" Triple H can win the tag titles in the new movie - and then real Triple H gives his film doppleganger the Pedigree, and buries the tag champs on the big screen, too.
ReplyDelete"It's what's right for business!"
Good booking to make him Benoit I can definitely see the resemblance in how they look, well more from a mannerism perspective. I'm very intrigued to see this! Will they be allowed to use names like 'Triple H' or 'Vince McMahon'? Imagine if this movie is critically acclaimed and gets oscar nominations, the more publicity this gets the more Vince will be freaking out.
ReplyDeleteBenoit's nickname was Rabid Wolverine
ReplyDeleteGets played by Wolverine's nemesis.
Fuck.
That made me laugh far too much.
ReplyDeleteOr..... Sabretooth in the original X-men movie was performed by a wrestler and now recent Sabretooth is performing as a wrestler.
ReplyDeleteBenoit and Wolverine were both members of the Four Horsemen at one point too.
ReplyDeleteDouble Fuck.
I would like to state, now and for all eternity: I don't remember if it was here or the old .com blog, but when they first started talking about this, I e-mailed Scott and suggested Liev Schreiber as Benoit. I WANT FUCKING ROYALTIES!
ReplyDeleteSchreiber should be good, I knew from his run on CSI that he could do "secret killer" well, and then he was in Goon where he had a Canadian accent and actually kinda looked like mullett-era Benoit. Although FWIW, I don't see anyone playing HHH or anything in this. Too much legal risk. I'd bet they take a page from the Jesse Ventura Story and just have fictionalized wrestlers during any wrestling scenes. Frankly its not really going to be a movie about "wrestling" per se, so I doubt it's important to cast all those roles. However, i'd imagine Sullivan might need to be in it, and that pretty much has to be Brad Douriff.
I feel that Sean Bean should be required to play Triple H.
ReplyDeleteWasn't Dean Malenko called "The Iceman" at one point?
ReplyDeleteDat poetry!
I'm hoping for a scene where Chris Benoit does a suicide dive.
ReplyDeleteActually it would make a lot more sense for Triple H to take on Jean-Paul Levsque and then the crowd can chant Terra Ryzing and...oh wait we covered this yesterday.
ReplyDeleteWow...so a studio is going to profit off a double murder suicide and name it crossface. Never thought I'd say this but, Vince's approach to Benoit has been a lot classier.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest problem with this is that Liev Schreiber is like 6'3'' whereas Benoit was only 5'10''.
ReplyDeleteNo promotional material in airports.
ReplyDeleteJoanie Laurer as Stephanie McMahon?
ReplyDeleteGonna be especially wierd when they cast Tom Cruise as Kevin Nash and he has to look upward to call Benoit a vanilla midget.
ReplyDeleteNah, just chuck Michael Chiklis in a wig.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone else on this Blog of Doom watch Adventure Time? All I can think of with the two HHHs is how they recently created a second Lemongrab for the first one to hang out with. And now I'm thinking of HHH just wandering around the back going.
ReplyDelete"Unacceptable! Too Short! Too short to be the champion. Jobber! You'll be a jobber for a MILLION years..."
A serious suggestion, though for legal reasons I doubt they could have a Vince McMahon character. But, if they did, how about Michael Shannon?
ReplyDeleteIt depends how they do it. I've hated true crime movies before if I thought they were exploitative or insensitive to the victims but you can't just ban all movies about horrific crimes - some are worthwhile. Whether this one is, remains to be seen.
ReplyDeleteHarrison Ford as Vince McMahon. Book it.
ReplyDeleteJohn Tuturro should play the role of Vince McMahon.
ReplyDeleteKevin Nash was almost casted as Sabretooth as well!
ReplyDeleteIt's okay though, Nash got to pretend he was drugged with estrogen in an Adam Sandler movie. And got stabbed by Tom Jane.
ReplyDeleteAfter 6 months of intensive strength training.
ReplyDeleteObviously Donald Trump has to play Vince. He won't let anyone else use his "You're fired" trademark!
ReplyDelete...featuring Brian Doyle Murray as Kevin Sullivan.
ReplyDeleteCharlie Hunnam is a great choice in general.
ReplyDeleteDanny Trejo as Eddie?
ReplyDeleteYeah, but he enjoyed hanging out with Scott Hall and getting stoned while being paid $100,000 a month more.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, the way WCW was at that point, I'd much rather have been in X-Men.
Soooo...what's the endgame of the movie? Are they gonna show a guy brutally murdering his wife and smothering his child?
ReplyDeleteI think I'll pass.
I doubt they show anything that occurred in their house. I think it will follow Benoit up until that infamous weekend, show other characters trying to contact him, and then go into the aftermath of the murder-suicide.
ReplyDeleteChavo (as played by John Leguizamo) will get the infamous text. "Who Let The Dogs Out" begins to play, cut to black, credits.
ReplyDeleteAnd didn't wolverine help Zack Ryder beat Dolph Ziggler one time? This goes all the way to the bottom!
ReplyDeleteDolph has 5 letters, Chris has 5 letters. Can't be a coincidence!
ReplyDeleteCGI of the late Rodney Dangerfield:
ReplyDelete'Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid!'
Do you not see any movie based on true events?
ReplyDeleteBDM's like 70 something these days, isn't he? Brad Douriff or GTFO.
ReplyDeleteIt's okay, they'll air it on the plane.
ReplyDeleteDanny DeVito.
ReplyDelete"Triple H will pitch an idea ... where he finally, FINALLY gets his dream match: Triple H vs Triple H".
ReplyDeleteImpossible because the match would never end. Neither would want to do the job.
Anyway you want it, that's the way you need it!
ReplyDeleteOh shit, good call. Pack on about 20-30lbs of muscle, and man, hell yeah.
ReplyDeleteIf Anne Hathaway got on some weight, she could easily play Stephanie from that era. Who, in my mind, is the hottest thing the WWE has ever produced.
ReplyDeleteWOMEN ARE NOT THINGS THEY ARE PEO... sorry I couldn't even get through that lol.
ReplyDeleteSeriously though you are opening a can of worms by saying "X" is the hottest ever... Perhaps hottest guy/girl ever should be a QOTD?
Good call. It'll be the QOTD tomorrow, credit to Mr. 1978
ReplyDeleteStill racking my brains re: casting. Thus far I've got, my non-joke cast would be:
ReplyDeleteVince: Michael Shannon
Jericho: Dean Winters (Ryan from Oz)
Chavo: John Leguizamo
Eddie: John Turturro
HHH: Viggo Mortensen / Sawyer from Lost
Malenko: Paul F. Tompkins
Mr. 1978 is my dad's name!
ReplyDeleteEvery movie can and should be improved by Rodney Dangerfield. That's just scientific fact. "Somebody step on a duck?"
ReplyDeleteHow about Chris Evans as Triple H? I also like the idea of Charlie Hunam as Jericho. Sofia Vegara as Nancy? I think that'd work. I can't even imagine who they'd get as Ric Flair. Although they probably wouldn't put too much thought into it, as Flair would probably be an in-passing character
ReplyDeleteJust get Will Ferrell to play Ric Flair like he did in Eastbound and Down. Sophia Vergara is a decent Nancy. I couldn't think of one off the top of my head.
ReplyDeleteI still wish I could go back in time to make a movie about Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love starring Hunnam as Cobain and Britanny Murphy as Courtney. There'll never be casting more perfect for those two.
Even though I'm not sure what conclusions the movie can come up with when even his closest friends can't fully reconcile what happened, I want more suggestions on who should play the other roles.
ReplyDeletePatterson and Brisco: James Cromwell and Richard Jenkins (two of the most famous "that guy"s in cinema).
Heyman: David Paymer because when you need someone to play a Jewish man... and because of his Oscar worthy work in No Holds Barred, of course
Vince: I really dig the Harrison Ford suggestion. Angry Ford sounds almost like Angry Vince already.
HHH: There really is no other choice than Sean Bean.
Jean-Claude Van Damme as Rob Van Dam, har har.
Sean Bean as HHH is perfect. Way better than my suggestions. Cromwell and Jenkins is also inspired. In fact now I want to see them re-enact Patterson and Brisco's match against one another.
ReplyDeleteDean Winters as Jericho? Wouldn't Scott Winters be a better choice, seeing as how Dean looks nothing like Jericho?
ReplyDeleteI actually reckon with bleached long hair, Dean would look more like Jericho than Scott would. I'd also worry that Scott would get confused and bring out the old sock puppet to play the role instead.
ReplyDeleteDue to some poor choices in selecting films and his many works as narrator, I don't think Schrieber gets nearly enough credit for his acting chops. I think he'd do a fine job. But like I said in my other post, I just don't know if there is a point to be made with this potential film.
ReplyDeleteSidenote: Has anyone seen "Ray Donovan," Schrieber's new tv show? Any good? The previews looked badass.
Never heard of Ray Donovan but just looked it up. Created by the creator of Southland and writer of Copycat and Primal Fear! Fuck yes, I'll be checking that out.
ReplyDeleteIn that case, I don't see the point. I mean, if you're gonna make this movie, go all the way with it. I still wouldn't wanna see it, but that's the point of the movie.
ReplyDeleteI don't know. Just strange.
Yes, but if Sean Bean is HHH, then everyone will expect Benoit-tooth to kill him by the end of the movie.
ReplyDeleteThat's how you lure the smarks in.
ReplyDeleteBut the smarks hopes are dashed when they see the film and realise Sean Bean, having gone full method-actor for the role, married the Director's daughter and gradually had the movie altered until it became a re-telling of HHH's glorious victory over Booker T at Wrestlemania 19.
ReplyDeleteDuffy from 30 Rock as Jericho?
ReplyDeleteDon't see it, sorry. Especially Shannon as McMahon.
Just go full retard with it and cast Chris Hemsworth as Triple H. If Triple H can't play Thor, he'll sure as hell get Thor to play him.
ReplyDeleteIf Nash got the role, I guarantee Sabretooth would have had more lines.
ReplyDeleteThey can do the movie in the style of Hollywoodland, the movie about George Reeves and his suicide. They threw out a couple of theories on Reeves' death and what happened in the film.
ReplyDeleteLiterally, the only way this makes sense as a movie is if Christopher Nowinski, or a fictional character like him, is the main character.
ReplyDeleteLiev is a great actor, which makes me think this news is bullshit anyway.
Who are the former wrestlers most likely to play themselves? Do you think Matt Hardy's waiting by the phone for the director to call?
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing this late at night on the free Digital True Movie channel in the uk, it will bridge the gap between mini series biopics of dead 80`s television actors and made for Tv movies about domestic abuse that drove women to murder, rather nicely.
ReplyDeleteAnd Mongo is to Horseman as Maggot is to X-Man
ReplyDelete"And Chris, make sure to take care of those dogs of yours. I know you treat them better than your own family!"
ReplyDeleteDoes that make Sid Juggernaut?
ReplyDeleteExcellent Simpsons reference.
ReplyDeleteYou know what I like that. As much as Flair and Arn will talk down about Sid being there he was just as over (if not more at points) than either and he was a world champ in both promotions. Juggs is one of the classic X-Men baddies who maybe just never belonged in the group itself though. Both were huge names that made sense being in the goups that they eventually joined, but once inside never seemed to fit well.
ReplyDeleteJason Alexander should play Paul Heyman.
ReplyDeleteIt'll end with Daniel getting eaten by Clifford the Big Red Dog.
ReplyDeleteSid had the look. Couldn't wrestles, promos sucked, couldn't draw. Didn't matter.
ReplyDeleteChristopher McDonald (aka Shooter McGavin from "Happy Gilmore") is the only correct choice for Vince.
ReplyDeletelol. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteUPDATE: According to TMZ,
ReplyDeletea representative for Liev Schreiber contacted the website and states
that despite reports, Schreiber is not playing Chris Benoit in the film Crossface. No other word on how may play the lead role at this time.
Soooo about that...
Sofia Vergara? You're giving Nancy a LOT of credit there
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's a weird movie dynamic that I think only lends itself to an indy type story-telling. I mean you'll have this story that's 95% about a hard-working, affable guy that everyone respects, traveling the world and finally breaking the glass ceiling in a worked 'sport'. . .who ends up breaking down and murdering his family to end it.
ReplyDeleteYou own anything but land these days, you own a popcorn fart!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I thought there would be more rumblings on that leading up to an announcement if there was going to be one...because, you know, the subject matter and all.
ReplyDeleteI never knew until last year that he's the narrator for HBO Sports. I still can't discern his voice when I watch the programming.
ReplyDeleteI really cant imagine how they would pull off the final scene of the movie either *shudders*
ReplyDeleteInteresting movie obviously, as being a wrestling fan we would all watch, but if it doesnt get made, I wont be mad
And, uh, whatever that was in Magic Mike....
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