Undertaker: The Movie
chewey - 11-3-2009 at 01:14 AM

So I found this on the web today:

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According to PWInsider.com, WWE is working on a film project that would work as an Undertaker origin story, explaining how The Undertaker we all know today came to be.

The project has no tenative title yet and is still in the developmental stage. It's likely that the movie will be a straight-to-DVD project.


If this is the case, I wonder (1) will it at least be better than that awful Kane Origins Novel that WWE Books published a few years back, and (2) will they show the Undertaker traveling at WWE road events dressed in a suit in order to show young upstarts like CM Punk how a real champion is supposed to dress?

DrBoz - 11-3-2009 at 01:53 AM

I'm looking forward to the part of the movie where the Undertaker turns into a biker dude that listens to Limp Bizkit.

theflammablemanimal - 11-3-2009 at 02:08 AM

I'm interested in how they explain why an undead phenom would turn to wrestling.

williamssl - 11-3-2009 at 02:11 AM

Whoever plays Katie Vick is a surefire frontrunner for best supporting actress Oscar. That role has "award" written all over it.

LuckyLopez - 11-3-2009 at 02:22 AM

http://www.lordsofpain.net/news/wwe/4743.html

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- As noted over the weekend, WWE is planning a movie based on the origin of The Undertaker character, reportedly a Western set in the 1800's. The project does not have any actors or writers at this point but is in WWE Studios' plans for 2010-2011. The current projected budget for the movie is in the $3.5 million range, indicating that it's a direct to DVD film.

happy_buddha - 11-3-2009 at 02:31 AM

Oh, so someone bought the rights to Saint of Killers from DC?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_of_Killers#Saint_of_Killers

chewey - 11-3-2009 at 03:26 AM

so does that mean that Kane is also over 100 years old? or was Mama Undertaker just still popping those babies out when Paul Bearer had his fling with her decades later?

Also, do you think they'll redo that scene in A Fistful of Dollars where Clint Eastwood no-sells a couple dozen rounds of bullets -- except unlike Eastwood, Undertaker *doesn't* have a plate of body armor underneath his poncho?


[Edited on 11-3-2009 by chewey]

Chris Is Good517 - 11-3-2009 at 04:35 AM

Well, if Undertaker has a mutant healing factor that would explain all the no-selling

Shannon Soze - 11-3-2009 at 04:40 AM

This movie has to be directed by Rob Zombie and have Sheri Moon Zombie play Katie Vick. Danny Trejo has to have a part as well. He should be cast because it's Danny fuckin Trejo! The clown from The Devil's Rejects can be Paul Bearer.

And cameos/roles by Bruce Willis, Jason Lee, Harvey Keitel, Rosario Dawson, Rainn Wilson, and Steve Buscemi as Jimmy the Retard.

TomS - 11-3-2009 at 01:02 PM

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WWE is working on a film project that would work as an Undertaker origin story, explaining how The Undertaker we all know today came to be.



Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...

angstboy - 11-3-2009 at 02:33 PM

Think they'll bring up stuff like this:

Lurker - 11-3-2009 at 02:37 PM

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Originally posted by williamssl
Whoever plays Katie Vick is a surefire frontrunner for best supporting actress Oscar. That role has "award" written all over it.


My memory is a bit hazy...but wasn't Katie Vick part of Kane's "Backstory"??

Why would they put her in the Undertaker's movie?

blackdragon - 11-3-2009 at 02:42 PM

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Originally posted by chewey

If this is the case, I wonder (1) will it at least be better than that awful Kane Origins Novel that WWE Books published a few years back, and (2)


I think you meant AWESOME Kane Origins Novel. Reading that book was like eating a piece of chocolate on your cheat day.

williamssl - 11-3-2009 at 03:37 PM

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Originally posted by Lurker

My memory is a bit hazy...but wasn't Katie Vick part of Kane's "Backstory"??

Why would they put her in the Undertaker's movie?



Because Kane and UT are (half) brothers.

And because necrophelia sells.

Stu - 11-3-2009 at 05:06 PM

Also, being an origin story, wouldn't that have to deal with him being younger, and therefore played by a different guy than Marc Calloway?
Also, using the standard template of Undertaker promos, will every confrontation with an enemy end with him telling them they'll REST. IN. PEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAACCE?

theflammablemanimal - 11-3-2009 at 05:26 PM

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Originally posted by blackdragon
Reading that book was like eating a piece of chocolate on your cheat day.


Oops, I'm sorry. I think I just wandered into this Will & Grace chatroom by mistake.

cumstain187 - 11-3-2009 at 07:26 PM

a Straight to Wrestlecrap release?

LAmLAMlamlaMALmaLM

SeanSmythe - 11-3-2009 at 07:41 PM

Verne Troyer for the Hornswoggle cameo thats all I'm saying.

gordiano - 11-4-2009 at 04:52 AM

Tell me this is just a stupid rumor......

Chris Is Good517 - 11-4-2009 at 05:49 AM

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Originally posted by theflammablemanimal
Oops, I'm sorry. I think I just wandered into this Will & Grace chatroom by mistake.


HA!

gobbledygooker - 11-4-2009 at 08:57 PM

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Originally posted by angstboy
Think they'll bring up stuff like this:



I didn't think it was possible to make a pink tanktop and blue Zubaz pants work but damned if he doesn't pull it off.

Shannon Soze - 11-5-2009 at 02:48 AM

And there has to be a mentor kind of part for either Sam Elliott or Ian McShane.

folby - 11-5-2009 at 03:17 AM

I don't want to be friends with anyone who can't enjoy a 19th century western starring the undertaker.

knuckleballschwartz - 11-5-2009 at 07:59 PM

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Originally posted by gobbledygooker

I didn't think it was possible to make a pink tanktop and blue Zubaz pants work but damned if he doesn't pull it off.


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originally posted by theflammablemanimal and quoted for truth

Oops, I'm sorry. I think I just wandered into this Will & Grace chatroom by mistake.

blackdragon - 11-5-2009 at 08:25 PM

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Originally posted by theflammablemanimal
quote:
Originally posted by blackdragon
Reading that book was like eating a piece of chocolate on your cheat day.


Oops, I'm sorry. I think I just wandered into this Will & Grace chatroom by mistake.


Well excuse a guy for wanting to get rid of his love handles...you big meanie head.

LuckyLopez - 11-5-2009 at 08:29 PM

Its ok, bd. I cheated on some crumb cake last night.

I'm so bad.