Crossface, the planned biopic about notorious pro wrestler and double murderer Chris Benoit, has been shelved. According to Benoit's son David, who has pro wrestling ambitions of his own, the movie was scrapped after the Benoit family saw the screenplay.
As explained by David in a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, the filmmakers needed the family's permission to move forward with the Chris Benoit project, but the Benoits rejected the proposal as the movie would have depicted the infamous tragedy.
"There was a director, everything bro. We had to step in because they wanted to do the tragedy about how it all went down. So we said no," David explains, adding that the Benoit family even hired a lawyer to assist in getting the project shut down. He added: "They needed our permission. She sent us the script and then the end was the whole murder/suicide was gonna be all in it. We said no." Making it clear that having portraying the details of the tragedy on the big screen was off the table, David also says that the family wouldn't be opposed to seeing a new documentary about his father getting made, noting he has lots of home video footage to offer.
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why do boomers like wrestling so much
my dad is 51 and in his free time he watches old wrestling matches on youtube
I'm guessing it's a combination of there not being a ton of entertainment opportunities when they were younger and the fact that wrestling used to be a lot better than it is now.
Wrestling today isn't nearly as entertaining as it was 15 years ago, so it just makes sense that it's an old person's sport and young people aren't into it. You think young people are going to turn off TikTok for half an hour to watch Roman Reigns?
Wrestling is one of the most watched shows on television.
Your dad sounds cool.
The real reason is that people younger than boomers have something else that serves the exact same purpose as pro wrestling: anime. Shounen anime specifically.
Shit we even use the same terminology.
>Shit we even use the same terminology.
???
>We don't need wrestling, we have anime
Way to make oiled up men in underwear grabbing each other seem straight
attitude and ruthless aggression era was some top-tier television
based
How the frick is Mick Foley still alive and walking
I loved watching overpaid and over the hill wrestlers cut promos on eachother back when WCW was in it's prime and battling monday nights with WWF in the late 90's.
Because when you're with the NWO, you're with the NWO for life brother and when you love the NWO, you love the NWO 4 life and that's just too sweet brother.
Wrestling's awesome. It's on all year round. You get to see people beat the crap out of each other. You get to see hot women and there's a bunch of different genres of entertainment in it.
It's not like you can just ignore the fact that he killed his wife and kid.
Sure you can, just have the film end before that happens
Nobody would give a shit about Chris Benoit if he had not offed his family and himself. The murder-suicide is the only interesting part.
Just made Kevin Sullivan do it
You don't need to ignore it. But there's no need to show him killing a kid.
It should be like in "Lincoln" where at the very end he leaves the gym and tells his friend he's going home to see his wife and kids and then it fades to black
I don't think his death needs to be continually dragged up and publicized for money. it's something that happened nobody has any new info it's just rehashing the same shit over and over
He FRICKING MURDERED HIS WIFE AND KID YOU SICK FRICK
>NOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE A PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE MAKING BLOOD MONEY OFF OF A TRAGEDY
I hate this soi reaction. Guy had immense brain damage and was taking roids. Ticking time bomb. If he wasnt so mentally and chemically fricked up from years of head trauma and drug abuse, he wouldnt even think about harming his family
>NO YOU CAN'T HAVE THE BIOPIC CONTAIN THE BIT HE IS INFAMOUS FOR
I mean kudos to the family for not just saying yes for quick cash, but his legacy is ruined, the murder suicide overshadows anything he did in wrestling. Just watching his old matches is hard to push it to the back of your mind.
Kinda makes the old matches better though. Like you don’t know if he’s gonna kill the guy
>portraying the details of the tragedy on the big screen
yh, i'm sure it was meant to be a theatrical release.
the Vice Documentary was great, it was pretty well researched and really balanced about his legacy
I thought he killed his son.
He has an older one from another woman that looks just like him and wasn't there.
I'd like to see one made that goes up to the tragedy but ends the night before it happened.
So basically someone completely uninvolved with the murder suicide part of the story just wants them to make a documentary about his dad that he can profit from, without including the only reason his dad is worth talking about
that's his OTHER son
When they say the Benoit family, dont they just mean this guy? Didnt Chris kill the rest?
Chris had a previous marriage and had a kid
That's a shame, sounds like it would have been kino
Imagine the poetry of him hanging himself at the end intercut with him holding up his championship belt on stage
After he crossfaced his wife and kids
They should have just tapped
>mfw the wrestling business (mostly WWE) shoves the fact that their ‘sport’ is incredibly dangerous to the mind and body that they pretend this didn’t happen and it wasn’t a result of their dangerous moves and drug abuse
The fact that WWE kgb style wiped Benoit’s history off the archives as soon as it was revealed what happened should speak volumes
>The fact that WWE kgb style wiped Benoit’s history off the archives as soon as it was revealed what happened should speak volumes
I wouldn't go that far, that just seemed like them cancelling Chris Benoit before we had a word for it. If a wrestler said something transphobic they'd also be wiped from the archive. Killing your family is a cancel worthy offense tho
>If a wrestler said something transphobic they'd also be wiped from the archive
At this point I don't think there's a single 80's or 90's top wrestler, heel or face who didn't call someone a homosexual at some point
David isnt a reliable source
Kid has been saying he'll get into wrestling for 10 years and hasnt bothered to do shit
I’m still working on my legs, b***h
Can someone redpill me about Chris' murder suicide? I started getting into the rabbithole that he was murdered and framed by someone.
There's no real rabbit hole. Heavy steroid abuse and a lot of head trauma making him more unstable is one of the main reasons why it gets swept under the rug so easily though
Hell, you can see the fall of juiced up wrestler numbers after his death
>There's no real rabbit hole.
Hmm maybe it's true but I stumbled upon some youtube channels with like 50+ of atleast 15 minute long videos that explain some shady stuff surrounding the murder suicide. Like the contaminated murder scene but I didn't really go deeper into it past that. So he had CTE? I wonder how Mankind didn't get CTE cos he was getting injured all the time.
Steroid use was overstated. His head trauma was the real issue. Guy had the brain of an elderly dementia patient.
This
Autopsy on his brain showed he had massive brain damage and dead areas. Equivalent to an 85 year role with dementia.
Probably more to do with the years of taking blows to the head from chairs and shit rather than steroids. Benoit never shielded himself from head blows like most wrestlers do
And his special move was jumping on people head first
bear in mind this is what his living son looks like, yeah frick that
I think the son he killed was an autist right?
No. People made up this shit about his son having fragile X and Chris injecting him with roids but that's just sensationalism. Chris did inject steroids into a moronic fan they invited backstage when he wrestled in Calgary, though.
What is the point of injecting a moronic fan with steroids once?
To get a laugh out of the other wrestlers in the back. They do wierd shit like that. Chris Jericho told a story once where Benoit and him had a hotel room next to a bunch of rowdy fans who were playing wrestling all night making a shit load of noise. One of them threw a shoe out in the hallway and Benoit grabbed it and took it back in his room. In the morning, he took a shit in the shoe and threw it back in the hall. When the fans found the shoe they were absolutely disgusted, and Benoit cackled like a mad man listening to their reactions from inside his room.
>Murders published on Wikipedia hours before police even arrive
>IP address tracked to location of WWE headquarters
Why does David love talking about his murdering dad so much? seems kind of sick
Based. American obsession with tragedy porn and true crime is disgusting.
The director is Lexi Alexander, she's a psycho feminist with one of the most hostile personalities I've seen on Twitter. If you go check her profile she's most likely blocked you. I'm very happy her career is going nowhere, just seems like an awful person