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SRG Films has announced their plans to adapt the Matthew Randazzo book "Ring of Hell: The Story of Chris Benoit and the Fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry" into a big-screen biopic entitled Crossface. Full details from the official press release are as follows:

 

"Crossface", a biographical thriller, delves into the pressures WWE superstar Chris Benoit faced throughout his wrestling career as the combination of drug-use, depression, and head trauma became increasingly impossible for him to handle. The true story made headline news in 2007 when Chris murdered his wife and young son before taking his own life.

 

SRG Films head Dale Alexander Carnegie is producing the film, while William Morris Endeavor (WME) is on board to package the project. Former Weinstein Company staffer, Sarah Coulter, turned in the first draft of the script in mid-October.

 

"All of us grow up believing that wrestling is fake, but looking at the shocking number of deaths in the industry, it quickly becomes evident that there is nothing fake about the dangers of this sport," Carnegie said. "Chris Benoit has become a poster child for everything that's wrong with professional wrestling and Sarah's terrific script captures his struggles and the many factors that led to the deaths of three people."

 

Coulter added: "People immediately point to steroids, never thinking about the brain trauma these wrestlers can, and do, incur in their profession, nor do they consider the rigorous schedule that keeps them working even when they shouldn t be. The Benoit story is one that needs to be brought into the light.

 

 

Anyone got any thoughts on this? Anyone expecting WWE to react to it in any kind of way?

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Anyone got any thoughts on this? Anyone expecting WWE to react to it in any kind of way?

I think in many ways WWE already have reacted to it by no longer doing chair shots to the head and stopping wrestlers performing more dangerous moves etc, they'll more than likely have a prepared response for the inevitable shitstorm heading thei way.

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Who are SRG Films? :laugh:

 

It'll be a horrible B Movie with shitty acting and production, not a fuck will be given

 

Precisely. In fact, I'll be surprised if it ever even sees a release. Guaranteed shit and guaranteed that the WWE will not give two fucks.

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If this film gets made it's going to be one those dreadful made for television American movies that ends up being shown on Channel 5 USA on a Thursday afternoon. I'll still watch it though. They should get Dolph Lundgren to play Benoit, Rae Dawn Chong to play Nancy and Mickey Rooney as Daniel.

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SRG Films head Dale Alexander Carnegie is producing the film, while William Morris Endeavor (WME) is on board to package the project. Former Weinstein Company staffer, Sarah Coulter, turned in the first draft of the script in mid-October.

Is he the bloke with the low sperm count and can't get his wife pregnant? I wish him well for his future Endeavors.

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