Dwayne Johnson is partnering up with Vice TV for a brand new docuseries titled Who Killed WCW? which can discover the rise and fall of World Championship Wrestling.
Johnson and Dany Garcia, founders of Seven Bucks Productions, are exec producing the collection, which can discover the “complicated elements that led to the promotion’s downfall, together with administration challenges, artistic selections, and the extraordinary competitors through the notorious Monday Night time Wars.”
It’ll additionally characteristic unique, in-depth interviews with wrestlers, executives, and insiders and “will shed mild by no means seen earlier than on the non-public tales and struggles of those that lived via the rise and fall of WCW.”
WCW was based in 1988 by Ted Turner after his Turner Broadcasting System acquired the property of Nationwide Wrestling Alliance territory Jim Crockett Productions. “It competed aggressively with the then-titled WWF (now WWE), frequently beating it within the rankings on Monday nights the place its Monday Nitro outrated Monday Night time Uncooked. Nonetheless, it endured vital losses and suffered from the merger between Turner mum or dad Tim Warner and AOL and was shut down in 2001.”
Johnson stated in an announcement: “The long-lasting rise and fall of WCW is one among skilled wrestling’s most charming tales – full of huge desires, large successes, painful failures, and the cruel realities of the professional wrestling enterprise.”
He added: “With wrestling viewership and fan engagement at an final excessive, there has by no means been a extra excellent time to inform top-quality wrestling tales, and there’s no higher one to begin with than a one-of-a-kind, behind-the-scenes have a look at this epic saga, often known as The Rise and Fall of WCW and personally, the rise of WCW, not the autumn, impressed me vastly early in my profession the place I’d ultimately change into, the Closing Boss.”
Garcia stated in an announcement: “Diving into the saga of WCW isn’t just one other challenge for us; it is a chance to focus on our abilities as documentary storytellers in a world the place we’ve got historic credibility and data: skilled wrestling.”
He continued: “This challenge permits us to construct a bridge between the passionate world wrestling viewers and people inquisitive about an often-misunderstood business, strengthened by our partnership with a devoted storyteller in Vice TV.”
Peter Gaffney, interim president of Vice TV, added, “Vice TV has at all times been on the forefront of telling tales from which others shrink back. We’re fortunate to affix forces once more with Dwayne, Dany of the Seven Bucks staff. We’ve got unparalleled entry to one of many nice tales of contemporary skilled wrestling, and we are able to’t anticipate our viewers to see it come to life.”
The collection will premiere on June 4.
Supply: Deadline
