It’s been a great week for professional wrestling. After seven years, CM Punk entered the square circle of All Elite Wrestling Everything out pay-per-view event, and surprisingly so did Daniel Bryan (now under his real name Bryan Danielson) and WWE superstars and Adam Cole. It was reminiscent of the Monday night WCW / WWF wars of the 1990s, when WWF drivers Kevin Nash, Scott Hall and Hulk Hogan made the leap from Vince McMahon to Ted Turner.
Now, the world hopes that the Earth’s dominant wrestling promotion will respond to the loss of all these heavyweights. How will WWE make a new promotion to AEW? Viouslybviament announcing an interactive home movie haunted by Netflix with The Undertaker.
Escape from the funeral home they’ll see Big E, Xavier Woods, and Kofi Kingston, collectively known as The New Day’s tag team, spending a night at the Deadman’s haunted mansion. We can only assume that Kofi’s kayfabe uncle died and bequeathed the mansion to the fighter with one stipulation: they must survive the night. This will show CM Punk who is truly the world leader in sports entertainment.
Things only turn blacker when you read the synopsis:
The Undertaker has prepared a trap for the decorated team The New Day in their mansion. What they don’t know: The Bury mansion is an extreme haunted house, full of supernatural challenges. It is up to viewers to decide the fate of these three poor souls trying to survive the wrath of The Undertaker.
Suppose the “interactive” part of it all is like this Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, finally giving fans a chance to choose whether or not Big E opens the Undertaker urn. It sounds great, like a 90-minute wrestling promotion, where fans can decide whether or not to continue watching WWE.
Right now, WWE has been making movies for almost two decades. In 2002 the WWE studios were launched, giving fighters as “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, John Cena, i Kane their own starring vehicles. They also released one Film Ed Harris ia Leprechaun restart no one asked. In addition, WWE Studios was released The Big Show, a sitcom starring superstar Paul Wight, who signed with AEW less than six months after the broadcast of the final episode. Fun fact: Jaleel White appeared the The Big Show as a character named Terence Malik, not to be confused with acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick. All that is really aside, since what is clear is that the wars of war are back, and Escape from the funeral home it will be enough to declare WWE winners.
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Escape from the funeral home arrives on Netflix on October 5th. AEW, note the days numbered.
[via Bloody Disgusting]