WWE teaming with ABC Family for Christmas film

[CrazySting]

www.deadline.com/2012/10/abc-family-wwe-studios-tag-team-for-holiday-movie-with-the-miz/

EXCLUSIVE: ABC Family and WWE Studios are getting in the ring together for the first time with the TV movie Christmas Bounty. The two are developing the action comedy for a 2013 broadcast during the network’s 25 Days Of Christmas programming block. WWE wrestling champion The Miz will be one of the stars. Andrew Black, Vivian Lee, James Berg and Stan Zimmerman wrote the script. Set to start production early next year, the film follows an elementary school teacher who is forced to return to her former life as a bounty hunter to save the family business. The female lead has not been cast. The Miz, whose real name is Michael Mizanin, has been in front of the camera a lot this year: In April, he took over the lead role in WWE Studios’ Marine 3: Homeland from Randy Orton, and also starred in Queen Of The Ring. He started out a contestant on MTV’s The Real World: Back To New York in 2001 and appeared in other reality shows before landing a WWE contract.

Eh, at least this might be a WWE Studios movie people actually see, due to it being on a fairly high-profile network.

[CH Punk]

If the female lead is a WWE Diva, it has to be Eve, right?

[Legion]

Some of the WWE personalities are actually decent actors, so this could be fine.

Miz, like him or hate him, is dripping in charisma

["I'm Batman..."]

Is Mick Foley going to play Santa Clause?

[CrazySting]

I've seen him on Psych. Miz is actually a pretty good actor. He's one of the few wrestlers that can do it and not come off as wooden as a plank. He's very natural and unforced.

For all the trashing of him being in The Marine 3, I'm pretty sure he'll churn out a better acting performance than either Cena or Ted did.

[Andrew is Good]

Wait wait, did that say he also starred in Queen of the Ring? Like, the Chyna porn?

Anyway, I say WWE should do a How the Grinch Stole Christmas with CM Punk as the grinch, trying to steal all the John Cena action figures, and in the end, they would get Trent Barreta action figures, but he would find out they loved them because they love wrestling after all. And Punk's heart grows three sizes. And Colt Cabana is his little reindeer.

[CH Punk]

Oct 26, 2012 16:09:54 GMT -5 Andrew is Good said:

Wait wait, did that say he also starred in Queen of the Ring? Like, the Chyna porn?

No, it's a WWE backed french movie called "Les reines du ring" (The Queens of the Ring) about a mom who decides to become a WWE Diva to strengthen her bond with her estranged son who's a WWE fan. Miz, Eve and CM Punk show up in the movie at some point.

[kidglov3s]

Oct 26, 2012 16:26:03 GMT -5 CH Punk said:

No, it's a WWE backed french movie called "Les reines du ring" (The Queens of the Ring) about a mom who decides to become a WWE Diva to strengthen her bond with her estranged son who's a WWE fan. Miz, Eve and CM Punk show up in the movie at some point.

Why don't they make all the WWE movies about WWE? That one sounds a lot more interesting than all the other stuff they do.

[Wolf Hurricane]

Oct 26, 2012 15:44:48 GMT -5 CH Punk said:

If the female lead is a WWE Diva, it has to be Eve, right?

More than likely, it'll be a celebrity, and a fairly noteworthy one at that. That's how they usually do these films: the leads are usually a WWE Superstar and a celeb with a little weight behind them, i.e. The Marine (John Cena/Robert Patrick), That's What I Am (Randy Orton/Ed Harris), Bending the Rules (Edge/Jamie Kennedy), etc.

[Jeremy]

Oct 26, 2012 17:14:25 GMT -5 kidglov3s said:

Oct 26, 2012 16:26:03 GMT -5 CH Punk said:

No, it's a WWE backed french movie called "Les reines du ring" (The Queens of the Ring) about a mom who decides to become a WWE Diva to strengthen her bond with her estranged son who's a WWE fan. Miz, Eve and CM Punk show up in the movie at some point.

Why don't they make all the WWE movies about WWE? That one sounds a lot more interesting than all the other stuff they do.

Limited audience.

[willywonka666]

I still want to see Big Show and some other wrestler in a buddy comedy. Preferably as cops, or garbagemen like a remake of Men at Work maybe

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Oct 26, 2012 15:51:38 GMT -5 "I'm Batman..." said:

Is Mick Foley going to play Santa Clause?

No, Goldberg is.

Speaking of that, they should make a WWE slasher movie. Like, as in set in the back and the wrestlers are playing their characters, just someone's killing them and everyone's trying to figure out who it is. Maybe could work in a cannibalism angle and make everyone suspect Ryback.

[Wolf Hurricane]

Oct 26, 2012 19:22:04 GMT -5 willywonka666 said:

I still want to see Big Show and some other wrestler in a buddy comedy. Preferably as cops, or garbagemen like a remake of Men at Work maybe

[kamero00]

lol it will be John Cena in drag. His lesbian wife will be kidnapped on Christmas eve, and he only has 24 hours to find her and save X-Mas

[mrjl]

Oct 26, 2012 19:34:06 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Oct 26, 2012 15:51:38 GMT -5 "I'm Batman..." said:

Is Mick Foley going to play Santa Clause?

No, Goldberg is.

Speaking of that, they should make a WWE slasher movie. Like, as in set in the back and the wrestlers are playing their characters, just someone's killing them and everyone's trying to figure out who it is. Maybe could work in a cannibalism angle and make everyone suspect Ryback.

I think WWE wrestlers would be great for a story where professional wrestling is a front for monster fighting.

[CrazySting]

"Les reines du ring" has a shaky premise.

So you want to get closer with your son? Hey, why not get a job where you'll be away from him 300 days a year!

[kidglov3s]

Oct 26, 2012 17:46:40 GMT -5 Jeremy said:

Oct 26, 2012 17:14:25 GMT -5 kidglov3s said:

Why don't they make all the WWE movies about WWE? That one sounds a lot more interesting than all the other stuff they do.

Limited audience.

Isn't the audience they're actually reaching with the WWE films a subset of the wrestling audience? I doubt anyone who's not a wrestling fan has heard of or seen The Reunion.

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Oct 26, 2012 20:45:18 GMT -5 CrazySting said:

"Les reines du ring" has a shaky premise.

So you want to get closer with your son? Hey, why not get a job where you'll be away from him 300 days a year!

Pretty much. It'd be like someone deciding that since their kid likes astronomy they're going to become an astronaut.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Oct 26, 2012 19:58:26 GMT -5 mrjl said:

Oct 26, 2012 19:34:06 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

No, Goldberg is.

Speaking of that, they should make a WWE slasher movie. Like, as in set in the back and the wrestlers are playing their characters, just someone's killing them and everyone's trying to figure out who it is. Maybe could work in a cannibalism angle and make everyone suspect Ryback.

I think WWE wrestlers would be great for a story where professional wrestling is a front for monster fighting.

It'd be like a live action version of that batshit insane WWE Heroes comic book from two years ago. That needs to happen.

[mrjl]

Oct 26, 2012 20:55:10 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Oct 26, 2012 20:45:18 GMT -5 CrazySting said:

"Les reines du ring" has a shaky premise.

So you want to get closer with your son? Hey, why not get a job where you'll be away from him 300 days a year!

Pretty much. It'd be like someone deciding that since their kid likes astronomy they're going to become an astronaut.

I think there's been some stories with a similar premise