Who Killed WCW? - Vice Series

[Chris]

Vice Studios and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Seven Bucks Productions are partnering together for a new pro wrestling-related docuseries.

In an article published by Deadline on Monday, it was noted that Vice Studios and Seven Bucks Productions are working on a docuseries "investigating the mysterious demise" of WCW. The docuseries was listed among several other projects that Seven Bucks Production has in development:

Seven Bucks has more than 60 film and television projects and counting in active development. Among the company’s upcoming titles are 'Red One,' greenlit by Amazon, directed by Emmy nominee Jake Kasdan and starring Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, J.K. Simmons, and Lucy Liu; 'Kate Warne,' also for Amazon, an action-packed biopic starring Emily Blunt as the first female Pinkerton agent; 'Moana,' a live-action remake of the animated feature, directed by Thomas Kail from a script by Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller; new installments in the 'Fast and Furious' and 'Jumanji' franchises; and, in partnership with Vice Studios, a docuseries investigating the mysterious demise of World Championship Wrestling (WCW), once the biggest wrestling company in America.

Vice and Seven Bucks Productions also worked together on "Tales from the Territories," a 2022 series that looked back at the territorial era of pro wrestling. That series was from "Dark Side of the Ring" co-creators Evan Husney and Jason Eisener.

WCW went out of business in 2001 and was purchased by WWE. After WCW's demise, The Rock held the WCW World Championship twice in 2001 when the title was featured on WWF television.

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/other-wrestling/vice-seven-bucks-productions-producing-mysterious-demise-wcw-docuseries

 

[Deadd2009]

Mysterious demise? Pretty sure they told us multiple times what helped kill off WCW, lol.

 

[Comrade Khan]

the rock's company making a series about WCW which he was never part of is pretty hilarious

 

[Chris]

the rock's company making a series about WCW which he was never part of is pretty hilarious

It's not their first wrestling venture either tho, they do Tales From the Territories too

 

[Comrade Khan]

It's not their first wrestling venture either tho, they do Tales From the Territories too

oh I was not aware that was them too.

 

[Death By Looch]

the rock's company making a series about WCW which he was never part of is pretty hilarious

Could be worse... could be Vince doing a doc about WCW... oh wait...

 

[Smart Marx]

I’ll watch this, but how much more can you milk out of the death of WCW?

 

[Smart Marx]

I think the best documentary ever done in this btw is Guy Evans Nitro Book. They actually interviewed dozens of AOL and Time Warner executives.

 

[Chris]

oh I was not aware that was them too.

Yeah that's how I learned the company was named Seven Bucks which is the funniest Rock shit ever

 

[Chris]

I’ll watch this, but how much more can you milk out of the death of WCW?

But they have to solve the mystery

 

[Gurryman]

When we're all dead and buried, WWE will still be burying WCW too

 

[John_69]

 

[Hoss]

Somehow continuing to skirt around the fact that the AOL-Time Warner merger was what killed WCW, no matter how much they try to paint it as being the fault of the people in WCW

 

[Dubb]

Oooh I love a good murder mystery.

 

[Cwalker]

Somehow continuing to skirt around the fact that the AOL-Time Warner merger was what killed WCW, no matter how much they try to paint it as being the fault of the people in WCW

This!

No matter how much money they lost, WCW would have stayed in business had that merger never happened because Ted Turner loved wrestling that much.