WWE is making a movie about the Undertaker…. how freaking awesome is that!!!! XD

but i don’t really get what the Undertaker from nowadays has to do with 1880 style…
that’s confusing me a bit.
are you sure that the movie is about him and that he isn’t just in it, like the Poltergeist thing???

It’s a tough call how WWE is going to do this movie. There are two other essential characters to this movie: Paul Bearer and Kane. If their going to make the movie right they need to have the house being set on fire and everyone dying except Taker and him working for Paul Bearer and everything. After that who knows how they’ll tell the story. Will they show Taker working for the WWE or what?

It’s also hard to say if it is a good idea to make the movie in general. It is one thing to make a movie involving wrestlers, but not about them. If they made a dark movie that involved Taker somehow, then that would be a little better then trying to tell his story. So far WWE is not doing so well with movie making so it is not helping me think they’ll do any better with this story. Besides, with so many new fans it would be easy for WWE to change Taker’s story a little.

I want see Undertaker in a movie or a movie about I really don’t care i just want to see him the big screen.

A set like the one that you’ve gaved us (western around 1880) is quite close to the original gimick of Taker – that of a western mortician – and, from what we’ve wittnesed, his actual personna is strongly linked to that, even though on his latest apperances he semed to be returning to the LOD gimmick.

Anyways, I’m looking forward to this project, although, I’m affraid it could ring the bell for his retierement…

NKL

I too accept your opinion Trindle. Plus some other points that will give WWE a tough time are the following:

Undertaker is aged now, and it will cost a lot of money to morph or digitize the younger days of Taker. Because realism is very important. Or it has to be done by a guy who can match Taker’s charachter well.

If it involves a storyline which Undertaker is to don the greasepaint, then I think it is a bad move from the WWE. They may try with stars like Cena or Orton, but doing a movie with Taker as the main cast will destroy the kayfabe of Taker on a whole.

Taker has been a guy who has not participated in casual videos or movies to maintain his kayfabe for close to two decades. And that is something for which I would salute for — his sincere commitment to maintain his WWE charachter and image revolving it. A movie involving Taker would just destroy that. And WWE has been a failure and have only come up with C Grade storylines when it comes to making movies featuring John Cena or former WWE wrestler Mr. Kennedy. So it would be no different when it comes to Taker, “UNLESS” Taker, a creative guy himself, comes up with a storyline of his own.

Cool cannot wait until that comes out looking forward to seeing it and it is about time too.

That will be strange , and in the same way awesome.Hmm what will be the plot of the Movie ?

The prospect of doing a film based on The Undertaker is a really great thing, and fact of the matter is, given the nature of the character (being that he is Undead), gives a lot of room to move as far as history is concerned. I can compare it to Wes Craven’s New Nightmare & more specifically how he (Craven) described Freddy Kreuger as that single character in the genre which is the embodiment of that genre, a character that has existed in many different forms throughout history..

How so much weight is placed upon him, that he begins to live independent of his creators.

Giving this status to The Undertaker is not so far fetched, he embodies everything about his way of life, he personifies his genre and broke free from the creators mold long ago. WWE have the power to create a really interesting film perhaps chronicling this immortal undead warriors’ journey through different points in history, and seeing him develop and adapt to the changing world around him (much in the same way as he has adapted his in ring style over the past 20 years).

What does everyone else think of this as an idea. I’d love to get some feedback on this post.

Anyway i think thats gonna be awesome.

If it focuses on the origin of Undertaker, it probably won’t involve Mark personally until much later in the movie, depending on how they do it. I’m sure there would be some action scene involving fighting and if so…..the person playing as Taker better chokeslam somebody!

Also, lets not hope that Mark will be the main star of the movie otherwise he’ll have to take time off to do it.

Finally a Undertaker Movie i have seen the fan made one of you guys and i enjoyed it!! But finally a real Undertaker movie!! Oh I have been waiting for this for a long time certainly all of us have and if the Undertaker would make a movie he should do it as a champ. Yay a Undertaker Movie!!!!!!!!!

This sounds a bit too late for me- they should have done it years ago. But if the plot is about both WHC and ‘Taker then how do they fit together at the 1880s when the WHC wasn’t even established? And I don’t think it is quite a good idea for a combination ‘Taker/WHC as he just won it in the past 2 year (since 2007) and the WHC fits better with HHH. However, a film about the original Undertaker character with Kane and Paul; and perhaps Mankind as well if Mick is still keen on working with WWE! Or they may stretch the time range so they can have children act as small brothers then they will gradually grow up to the day they meet again at the first ever HIAC match. Or perhaps lets Taker turn heel and become another kind of SoulChaser as he did in Poltergeist the legacy-this time ‘Taker will be burnt down with his family and become the Deadman and chase for revenge on Kane and Paul rather than him burning the family. But I think the best idea is WWE should invent a new film that doesn’t related whatsoever we knew about the character Undertaker’s family, so we can enjoy it evenmore. But on a whole, it is an awesome plan.

I agree with Alex and Trindle about the problems what WWE has to face if they do the film-WWE has to solved it if they want the film to be successful. They may use substitude actors in the openning and our real man will appears later in the film.
By the way, will this film include his wives in? If it definitely only about Original Deadman then I think it might not have his wives. How do you think?

Oooohhhh, this is going to be impressive! A movie of Taker!

VieSinCalaway wrote:

This sounds a bit too late for me- they should have done it years ago. But if the plot is about both WHC and ‘Taker then how do they fit together at the 1880s when the WHC wasn’t even established? And I don’t think it is quite a good idea for a combination ‘Taker/WHC as he just won it in the past 2 year (since 2007) and the WHC fits better with HHH. However, a film about the original Undertaker character with Kane and Paul; and perhaps Mankind as well if Mick is still keen on working with WWE! Or they may stretch the time range so they can have children act as small brothers then they will gradually grow up to the day they meet again at the first ever HIAC match. Or perhaps lets Taker turn heel and become another kind of SoulChaser as he did in Poltergeist the legacy-this time ‘Taker will be burnt down with his family and become the Deadman and chase for revenge on Kane and Paul rather than him burning the family. But I think the best idea is WWE should invent a new film that doesn’t related whatsoever we knew about the character Undertaker’s family, so we can enjoy it evenmore. But on a whole, it is an awesome plan.

I agree with Alex and Trindle about the problems what WWE has to face if they do the film-WWE has to solved it if they want the film to be successful. They may use substitude actors in the openning and our real man will appears later in the film.
By the way, will this film include his wives in? If it definitely only about Original Deadman then I think it might not have his wives. How do you think?

in real life Mark Calaway and divorced from two wives ,and then in this film talk about the origins of Undertaker not of praivacy on Mark calaway.and then I do not see anything negative about this film I do not understand what your problem

Lulz, Dan your comments sum it up perfectly

“How to react? On the one hand the WWE may be making a movie about the Undertaker – how freakin’ awesome is that. On the other hand, the WWE may be making a movie about the Undertaker – how freakin’ scary is that.”

Trindle wrote:

It’s a tough call how WWE is going to do this movie. There are two other essential characters to this movie: Paul Bearer and Kane. If their going to make the movie right they need to have the house being set on fire and everyone dying except Taker and him working for Paul Bearer and everything. After that who knows how they’ll tell the story. Will they show Taker working for the WWE or what?

It’s also hard to say if it is a good idea to make the movie in general. It is one thing to make a movie involving wrestlers, but not about them. If they made a dark movie that involved Taker somehow, then that would be a little better then trying to tell his story. So far WWE is not doing so well with movie making so it is not helping me think they’ll do any better with this story. Besides, with so many new fans it would be easy for WWE to change Taker’s story a little.

OK Now here’s my two cents on this….
They’re talking about The Undertaker Not the wrestler but what An actual Undertaker is Not his back story…. Or at least that’s what i think of it….
Sides a Movie with taker you’re a fan Watch it first THEN complain how it was awesome but not awesome enough

It’s quite simple. We all know the story of Undertaker, Kane, Paul Bearer, and Mankind. Starting with how Taker became “the Deadman” is a good start, and it’d be interesting to see how they explain the Funeral Home burning down, and why Taker and Mankind (in the story) hated each other so passionately.

the movie is not about the wrestler undertaker .. it’s about an undertaker as main charactar in the movie .. a simple undertaker

John wrote:

OK Now here’s my two cents on this….
They’re talking about The Undertaker Not the wrestler but what An actual Undertaker is Not his back story…. Or at least that’s what i think of it….
Sides a Movie with taker you’re a fan Watch it first THEN complain how it was awesome but not awesome enough

I see your point. Perhaps it will be most of a ghost story that will feature a Undertaker from the old era being a soul chaser or whatnot. WWE never made a movie on a wrestling characters past before so why start now.

looks like surviver seires is set for the dead man

I think if anything…… They should make the movie like they made the Undertaker Comics….

Its not really breaking any rules and it gives Undertaker more freedom to be….. well you know…. darker….

Well is Taker and Kane going to be like 200 years old or something? Anyways, im looking forward to it
:D

it is strange, very cool,confusing, and interesting. I hope it is good. further more I hope I can at least find a way to be an extra, that would freakin’ sweet!

I Can’t Wait !!!!!

the dead man will be in for a show at surviver seires this year

Honestly I don’t feel too comfortable about this. Personally I’m not a fan of WWE movies, and I would much rather not see the Undertaker in a movie ever than see him acting in (or being subject of) a bad movie. If the movie ever comes out and it stars the Undertaker, odds are it will attract negative attention. I wouldn’t want that for ‘Taker.

They stole my idea the sons of bitches! And made it……..dumb. 1880s? Fair enough…

Wait what?? What movie??

Is it possible for WWE to do this without making a mudpie out of it?

VieSinCalaway wrote:

This sounds a bit too late for me- they should have done it years ago. But if the plot is about both WHC and ‘Taker then how do they fit together at the 1880s when the WHC wasn’t even established? And I don’t think it is quite a good idea for a combination ‘Taker/WHC as he just won it in the past 2 year (since 2007) and the WHC fits better with HHH. However, a film about the original Undertaker character with Kane and Paul; and perhaps Mankind as well if Mick is still keen on working with WWE! Or they may stretch the time range so they can have children act as small brothers then they will gradually grow up to the day they meet again at the first ever HIAC match. Or perhaps lets Taker turn heel and become another kind of SoulChaser as he did in Poltergeist the legacy-this time ‘Taker will be burnt down with his family and become the Deadman and chase for revenge on Kane and Paul rather than him burning the family. But I think the best idea is WWE should invent a new film that doesn’t related whatsoever we knew about the character Undertaker’s family, so we can enjoy it evenmore. But on a whole, it is an awesome plan.

I agree with Alex and Trindle about the problems what WWE has to face if they do the film-WWE has to solved it if they want the film to be successful. They may use substitude actors in the openning and our real man will appears later in the film.
By the way, will this film include his wives in? If it definitely only about Original Deadman then I think it might not have his wives. How do you think?

:)) :)) A movie involving Taker and his wife might have something to do with Taker as a Devil and his Wife a Vampire :)) :))

oh my god,how awesome is that

wwe is known for making crappy movies, the movies they make are not worth the price to see it in theater or buy it on DVD, with this i don’t think it would be any different, i wouldn’t be surprise it it went straight to DVD, but since its a movie about the UT then i would spend that money to see it.

taker de immortal!!!!

I think it’s over-the-moon exciting… for me anyways. WWE Studios so far doesn’t have a good track record of producing films that haven’t been made a mockery of. On the one hand, it’s really awesome cause no Superstar has had a “background” as significant as The Undertaker’s and whether you love him or hate him, at least one time you’ve wondered what it would be like if there was a movie made on the Taker. Then on the other hand, if this movie bombs it’ll be a simple case of “oh well, another sucky WWE movie, let’s move on”.

As for Mark Calaway himself appearing in the movie, it’s not really necessary unless he’s playing like Taker’s dad or some devil wizard or something. The only realistic way for Calaway to play Taker would be if like they had a bunch of sequels and they were up to the “story of the American Badass”. Still, this is awesome to hear.

Andres wrote:

Honestly I don’t feel too comfortable about this. Personally I’m not a fan of WWE movies, and I would much rather not see the Undertaker in a movie ever than see him acting in (or being subject of) a bad movie. If the movie ever comes out and it stars the Undertaker, odds are it will attract negative attention. I wouldn’t want that for ‘Taker.

although I totally agree with you I dont see the WWE making a movie directly about the WWE character, they will probably just borrow certain traits of the undertaker, for eg John Cena and Steve Austin pretty much play themselves in WWE movies although technically they are playing totally different characters

What I think most people are forgetting is, this movie is not about Taker, Kane, Paul Bearer, the wives or even wrestling. It is set in the 1800s and is based on Vince McMahon’s ORIGINIAL CONCEPT for the character of The Undertaker–it is about Vince’s vision of who the Undertaker character was based on. Once Mark was hired, he has said he took that character and ran with it, making it his own by changing it to his ‘vision’ of The Undertaker. So, it’s like Vince wants to show us HIS version, what was his original idea for the character. (like a slap in the face to Mark’s vision)

Personally, I am not too thrilled about this. It threatens to destroy the mystique of The Undertaker–something that has been the lure to him for everyone. Also, I cannot help but think of the book Journey Into Darkness that the WWE released about Kane and his back storyline. It has nothing to do with Kane’s real storyline his longtime fans know and remember from TV. As stupid as that Katie Vick segment was (another of Vince’s lovely ideas….), the book is literally centered around her.

Just my 2 cents but I think this is a bad idea (even though I admit a movie about the Undertaker sounds exciting) just because it is intended only to confuse and destroy what we already know and love.

that would be fuckin awsome

I heard this is a straight to DVD movie.

I would love to see a movie about the undertaker a horror movie about a man that works as an undertaker and kills people in the old western days he believed in taking souls to be immortal then when he dies resurrects as the undertaker we know today a dead men walking still taking souls but no he cant be kill would be my favorite movie

I’m not to hot about this one… How did we lose Rock and Stone Cold? Even though Taker has alot more passion for the WWE (19 Years Soon!)

That and won’t it kinda ruin the mystic mysterious part of him if we have an orgin film?

If it’s released I’d see it, but I don’t know…

even if some people don’t like it this wont ruin the mystic hardcore fans of the undertaker wont loose interstst in him its just something extra he still the best the phenom

I would love see a Undertaker movie,but i was thinking more along the lines of something like he did in Poltergeist or using his LOD or ministry gimmick,anyway if they do go ahead with this im sure WWE will ruin it somehow.

It’s not a movie based on Mark Calaway you guys. It’s a movie based on The Undertaker gimmick. For thse of you that don’t know… the 1880’s western mortician or Undertaker’s is what The Undertaker (Mark Calaway) got his charcter from.

OMG this should be freakn awesome. i hope this goes threw the theaters cause the only thing better than seeing him on the tv would be seeing him on a huge theater screen ( with the exception of seeing him in person cause nothing beats that lol)

I would absolutley love to see this if done right. Like rob said its not about the undertaker the wrestler , more the gimmick of the undertaker. i also personally think that mark could actually play the character as its set in the old west and people would generally have drier and more wrinkled skin,i really would not want to see anyone other than him play the role.also does anyone know whether he will have supernatural powers or is he just a mortician?.either way it will f**ckin rock
all hail the undertaker

Amazing, I can’t wait for this. This will be the next DVD that I’d buy after Mania 25.

OMG! A movie about ‘Taker!?! YES! I’ve waited so long :)

Undertaker was in the movie, film name ‘KHILADIYON KA KHILADI’ somewhere during year 94/95. it’s a bollywood picture. however brian lee plays the role of the undertaker in that film.

Jackie wrote:

Undertaker was in the movie, film name ‘KHILADIYON KA KHILADI’ somewhere during year 94/95. it’s a bollywood picture. however brian lee plays the role of the undertaker in that film.

SO?!! does tht make any reference to UT being in a film?

123kid wrote:

SO?!! does tht make any reference to UT being in a film?

YES

Mayank Shridhar wrote:

Amazing, I can’t wait for this. This will be the next DVD that I’d buy after Mania 25.

Of corse, because there all the other DVD’s between now and then are crap.

If WWE does it right, it could be the coolest thing ever. I’m encouraged by the Old West idea, as it won’t have to sidestep any of the continuity problems with his modern persona. It can make use of the original gimmick, which I always felt was not developed enough. The Old West is really a whole mythology of its own, full of ghost stories (High Plains Drifter, for example) and dark imagery. (Tombstone, Arizona, anyone?) My mind instantly travels to tales of restless spirits whenever I see a great western. Someone needs to reap those souls. Enter The Deadman…

“Cowboy change your ways today, or with us you will ride/ and try to catch the Devil’s Herd across the endless sky.”

I wonder if they’ll actualy use Taker, or use a look-alike…(Brian Lee?) Or will they wait till his 3rd WrestleMania-Summerslam break. lol

I think use a look alike?

Why wouldn’t they use the Undertaker? It’s WWE Films, so apparently all their movies have to star wrestlers.

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