{"id":41776,"date":"2017-04-28T17:09:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=41776"},"modified":"2017-04-29T00:41:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T05:41:49","slug":"details-emerge-vince-mcmahon-biopic-script-indicating-scriptwriter-intentionally-liberally-altered-major-details-order-tell-fictionalized-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/28\/details-emerge-vince-mcmahon-biopic-script-indicating-scriptwriter-intentionally-liberally-altered-major-details-order-tell-fictionalized-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Details emerge on Vince McMahon biopic script, indicating scriptwriter intentionally and liberally altered major details in order to tell fictionalized story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3359156458\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Early reviews of the leaked \u201cPandemonium\u201d script of Vince McMahon\u2019s life suggest the script is closer to a work of fiction loosely based on reality than anything close to an attempt to accurately portrayal of Vince McMahon\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>According to various reports, many based on Alex Greenfield&#8217;s review for an MLW podcast this week, the script chronicles Vince McMahon starting in 1969 or 1971 (reports differ) when he was in his early 20s through his expansion years of the WWF. Timelines are messed up and the history of various wrestlers are\u00a0fictionalized or greatly altered, according to various accounts. The drama is built around Ted Turner\u2019s supposed obsession with Vince McMahon (something Vince McMahon expressly believed to be true during the Monday Night War), drama in his marriage, and his difficult relationship with his father Vince Sr. who preceded him at the helm of what is now WWE.<\/p>\n<p>The script, because Vince McMahon will have veto power over details and heavy influence over how he\u2019s portrayed, will likely undergo major rewrites before it goes into production. Perhaps most oddly and most likely to be completely changed, the script fictionalizes Linda McMahon\u2019s background. It presents her as working as a strip club waitress when she becomes pregnant with Shane, and Vince demands she shouldn\u2019t work in that environment anymore. It leads to a fight between Vince and the club owner, which Vince wins in a back alley.<\/p>\n<p>The script includes battling the government in court when he was indicated on charges of steroid distribution. The script also depicts explicit backstage and off-camera partying, drug use, and sex &#8211; including a sex scene with Hulk Hogan (perhaps included as a joke, given Hogan was victim of a leaked sex tape). It includes a scene of Shane and Stephanie McMahon fighting back against bullies who were taunting them about their father being indicted on steroid distribution charges despite not attending high school at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, Jim Crockett Jr. and Eric Bischoff are either believed to be the same person by the script writer or merged for &#8220;expediency&#8221; of storytelling. The script suggests the WWWF was struggling before Vince Jr. took over and convinced his dad to go a new direction, inspired by a Led Zeppelin rock concert he attended. The script gets into the WWF transitioning from Bob Backlund to Hulk Hogan as a lead babyface. Vince Sr., in the movie script, died in 1994, as opposed to his real year of death\u00a01984, to apparently create a climax and extra drama in the midst of the steroid trial.<\/p>\n<p>All indications are that this is not going to be anything close to an accurate portrayal of Vince\u2019s journey or the evolution of WWE. In fact, it\u2019s quite close to a work of fiction, and clearly intentionally so. The first page of the script might be the tipoff that it wasn\u2019t meant to be anything near reality: \u201cThis script is as true as anything in professional wrestling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-SOURCE: <a href=\"http:\/\/wrestlingnews.co\/wwe-news\/vince-mcmahon-movie-script-has-leaked-and-youll-never-guess-who-mcmahon-met-at-a-strip-club\/\">Vince McMahon movie script has leaked and you\u2019ll never guess who McMahon met at a strip club (WrestlingNews.co)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-SOURCE: <a href=\"http:\/\/splashreport.com\/vince-mcmahon-wwe-pandemonium\/\">VINCE MCMAHON WWE BIOPIC PANDEMONIUM STORY DETAILS (SplashReport.com)<\/a><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1758738336\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>-SOURCE: <a href=\"http:\/\/whatculture.com\/film\/wwe-s-vince-mcmahon-movie-script-review-10-things-you-need-to-know-about-pandemonium\">What Culture: WWE\u2019s Vince McMahon Movie Script Review &#8211; 10 Things You Need To Know About Pandemonium (WhatCulture)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1025066374\"><div id=\"pwtor-2802208739\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Early reviews of the leaked \u201cPandemonium\u201d script of Vince McMahon\u2019s life suggest the script is closer to a work of fiction loosely based on reality than anything close to an attempt to accurately portrayal of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/04\/28\/details-emerge-vince-mcmahon-biopic-script-indicating-scriptwriter-intentionally-liberally-altered-major-details-order-tell-fictionalized-story\/\" title=\"Details emerge on Vince McMahon biopic script, indicating scriptwriter intentionally and liberally altered major details in order to tell fictionalized story\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[721,3830,530,5146,2124,5147,184],"class_list":["post-41776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-linda-mcmahon","tag-mcmahon","tag-shane-mcmahon","tag-stephanie","tag-ted-turner","tag-vince-biopic","tag-vince-mcmahon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/04\/VinceStephanie_WK_3x2-600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41795,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41776\/revisions\/41795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}