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It has been one of the stories of 2015. Whilst creatively WWE has found itself in a complete rut, one group has stood tall as a beacon of light throughout the year. The most surprising thing to many is that the group is spearheaded by a man who would have been on a number of predicted future endeavour lists at the start of the year.
I’m talking of course about Xavier Woods. When he arrived on the main roster in 2013, Woods was randomly paired with R-Truth, the dancing good guys that nobody cared about. He feuded with Brodus Clay over the use of Ernest Miller’s music and the dancing Funkadactyls, and the entire thing was a washout from the start.
This was winter 2013, and Woods did a whole lot of nothing until he approached Kofi Kingston and Big E in the summer of 2014. This led to the formation of The New Day.
It has been one of the stories of 2015. Whilst creatively WWE has found itself in a complete rut, one group has stood tall as a beacon of light throughout the year. The most surprising thing to many is that the group is spearheaded by a man who would have been on a number of predicted future endeavour lists at the start of the year.
I’m talking of course about Xavier Woods. When he arrived on the main roster in 2013, Woods was randomly paired with R-Truth, the dancing good guys that nobody cared about. He feuded with Brodus Clay over the use of Ernest Miller’s music and the dancing Funkadactyls, and the entire thing was a washout from the start.
This was winter 2013, and Woods did a whole lot of nothing until he approached Kofi Kingston and Big E in the summer of 2014. This led to the formation of The New Day.
- 1/7/2016
- by John Bills
- Obsessed with Film
by Terry Keefe
The Wrestler has come to DVD this week with extras which include interviews with real professional wrestlers and "The Wrestler" music video from Bruce Springsteen. An in-depth interview with Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky, below.
Note that this article appeared in the February 2009 issue of Venice Magazine.
(Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, on the set of The Wrestler, above)
Into the Ring with Aronofsky
As someone who has spent quite a bit of time researching the backstage goings-on of professional wrestling for two different screenplays (most notably a script which was a biopic of wrestling super-promoter Vince McMahon), I can say that director Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler captures the lives of professional wrestlers with an authenticity that has never been seen before in a fiction film. It is also, somewhat incredibly, the first major fiction film in recent memory to really begin mining the pure narrative gold inherent in...
The Wrestler has come to DVD this week with extras which include interviews with real professional wrestlers and "The Wrestler" music video from Bruce Springsteen. An in-depth interview with Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky, below.
Note that this article appeared in the February 2009 issue of Venice Magazine.
(Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, on the set of The Wrestler, above)
Into the Ring with Aronofsky
As someone who has spent quite a bit of time researching the backstage goings-on of professional wrestling for two different screenplays (most notably a script which was a biopic of wrestling super-promoter Vince McMahon), I can say that director Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler captures the lives of professional wrestlers with an authenticity that has never been seen before in a fiction film. It is also, somewhat incredibly, the first major fiction film in recent memory to really begin mining the pure narrative gold inherent in...
- 4/23/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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