Earlier this week WrestleZone Radio presented an exclusive interview with screenwriter, producer and director Max Landis. During the interview Max gives his thoughts on:
– What he does not like about the current WWE product
– Wrestling Isn’t Wrestling passing two million views on Youtube
– Ways the WWE can be changing up it’s presentation
– How he would book Roman Reigns
– The way women are presented in WWE and other forms of entertainment
– The New Day’s push and place on the card
– How pro wrestling compares to other forms of entertainment when it comes to evolving
– Whether there will be a sequel to Wrestling Isn’t Wrestling
– And more…
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Below is the full audio from Max’s interview as well as some transcribed quotes from it:
On how he would like to see Roman Reigns booked now that he is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion:
ML: I would turn him heel but I would turn him “chaos heel.” I would not turn him “mean heel.” I would just have him come out and spear Dean Ambrose, spear The Usos and then have Triple H try to talk to him… spear him too. Spear people backstage. Just say, “I run this bitch.” Just beat the sh*t out of everyone. Be totally unstoppable. Tell the audience, “I don’t need your applause. I remember when you boo’d me and I don’t care that you cheer me. So you can back off you f*cking dickholes.” Just basically sh*t on everyone and never speak other than to basically say, “F*ck off.” Spear people through tables and walls. I think you book him like Lesnar. Like an aggressive, psychotic bully. I would give him a new move set. I would keep the Superman punch and the spear but I think he needs some high impact moves. I think he needs to bring that power bomb back. I think he needs something like a Death Valley driver. Something up on the shoulders where it makes you look like you’re dead. Like a flip cutter or something. I really feel like that guy should be terrifying. Like a brutal, ass kicking, asshole. If he loses? He’ll spear the referee but he doesn’t lose. He wins decisively and quickly against anyone. “Oh, you accidentally spilled coffee on Roman Reigns?” “Oh, you accidentally bumped in to him in a hall way?” He will pummel you. He will destroy you and by the time someone wins the Royal Rumble you are scared for them because Roman Reigns is a f*cking bad ass. I don’t think they are going to do that. I think it’s going to be a little more, “Tater Tots.” “Thank you all for supporting me,” Roman Reigns will say on the mic. “Shut the f*ck up! You know we didn’t Roman! You know we don’t now!” It will not surprise me if the writing squanders that good favor that they have earned him with the end of RAW (last Monday).
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