WWE Films Rolls Heffernan's Barrels

Source: Variety May 17, 2005

 

 

WWE Films, the division hatched by World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon to create screen vehicles for his wrestlers, has acquired John Heffernan's script A Chance for Both Barrels, reports Variety.

 

The hard-edged actioner about a mercenary and his quest to bring a killer to justice will be tailored as a vehicle for an as-yet-unspecified WWE ring star.

 

Heffernan most recently wrote Pacific Air 121, the New Line horror thriller that will star Samuel L. Jackson. Heffernan also scripted The Naked Prey for MTV Films.

 

WWE Films has already wrapped The Marine, starring John Cena, and horror film Goodnight, starring Kane. It will start production in late summer on The Condemned, to star Stone Cold Steve Austin.

So who get's it? Undertaker? Batista? Does anyone care? Will any of these movies make any money?

From IMDB, the outline for his last movie (Pacific Air 121):

 

Plot Outline: On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

Dreadful

This sounds like the lineup of Roddy Piper's Greatest Hits at the movie theater...

 

The only movie Piper did that was any good was They Live, which had a lot to do with Writer/Director John Carpenter.

The premise sounds quite similar to that of The Marine and Walking Tall, albeit to a lesser extent.