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Zac Efron complimented by Marshall Von Erich for The Iron Claw movie

When Zac Efron was cast to star in a movie about professional wrestling’s Von Erich family, it raised a few eyebrows. Efron will play the role of Kevin Von Erich in The Iron Claw. Photos emerged recently, and Efron received support from Kevin’s son.

Marshall Von Erich complimented Efron’s jacked physique. Marshall was encouraged by the dedication from Efron and involvement by Chavo Guerrero to do the film right.

Reports indicate that Chavo will serve as wrestling coordinator for the film.

The plot for The Iron Claw will follow the Von Erich family from the 1960s through to present day. Director and write Sean Durkin explained, “It’s another family portrait, about a wrestling family who revolutionized the sport and then suffered tragedy.” Along with Efron as Kevin Von Erich, Jeremy Allen White will play Kerry Von Erich, Harris Dickinson will play David Von Erich, and Holt McCallany will play patriarch Fritz Von Erich. There doesn’t appear to be jacked and juicy public photos of Efron’s co-stars yet to see how they compare.

The Iron Claw does not have an official release date at the moment.

“The Iron Claw” is a biographical film about the wrestling dynasty that was the Von Erich family, and co-stars “The Bear” leading man Jeremy Allen White as Kerry Von Erich and “Beach Rats” actor Harris Dickinson as David Von Erich

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Zac Efron is all flying muscle in first look at wrestling drama ‘Iron Claw’
(CNN)

CNN - Zac Efron is abs-olutely going for it in the first photo from his upcoming drama “Iron Claw.”

The actor shared the first-look image from the A24 film to his Instagram on Monday, showing him hurtling through the air in a blue Speedo as he lands a drop kick on an opponent in a wrestling ring.

The image shows him near-horizontal in midair, muscles rippling and hair flying as he delivers the barefooted kick to his unsuspecting rival.

Efron will be playing wrestling legend Kevin Von Erich in the film. The Von Erichs are a famous family of wrestlers whose start in the WWE dates back to the 1960s, according to the organization’s website. They were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2009.

Family patriarch Fritz Von Erich became a top performer in the industry, trademarking a distinctive finishing move known as “The Iron Claw,” before five of his six sons followed in their father’s footsteps to become wrestlers.

Efron will portray Kevin, the last surviving brother, opposite costars Lily James (“Pam & Tommy”) and “The Affair” star Maura Tierney, who will play his mother Doris.

“The Iron Claw,” which does not yet have an official release date, comes from writer-director Sean Durkin, whose credits include the 2011 Elizabeth Olsen-starring “Martha Marcy May Marlene.”

‘Skyfall’ at 10: Sam Mendes Recalls How Shutting Down the Movie Led to Its Ultimate Success

The film faced an uphill battle — including studio MGM going bankrupt and headlines declaring the end of 007 — before a 10-month hiatus put it on the path to $1 billion at the box office.

(The Hollywood Repoter)

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BY PHIL PIRRELLO

In April 2010, Skyfall received a blessing in disguise when it was unceremoniously shut down.

With parent studio MGM spiraling toward bankruptcy at the time, Daniel Craig’s much-anticipated third outing as James Bond was put on an indefinite pause by producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. MGM’s financial situation hobbled both the production and the franchise, with the latter sorely in need of a hit. The would-be blockbuster had already been in development for a year and a half — following the mixed critical and box office response to 2008’s noble misfire, Quantum of Solace. It looked like Bond’s DNR would be a lengthy one, with the press worrying it would be similar to the six-year gap between 1989’s License to Kill and the release of GoldenEye in 1995 that was brought on by legal troubles.

“When all this was announced, the cover story at Entertainment Weekly at the time read: ‘Is James Bond Dead?’” recalls director Sam Mendes, who tells The Hollywood Reporter on the eve of Skyfall’s 10th anniversary how challenging it seemed then for the movie to ever reach such a milestone. Mendes and his collaborators used the downtime as an opportunity to creatively resuscitate the film’s storyline. In doing so, they found themselves dealing with the same themes of resurrection in real life that Bond would struggle with as the movie rocketed toward its Nov. 9 release date in the U.S. — just in time for the franchise’s 50th anniversary. (No pressure.)

As Skyfall turns 10, Mendes reveals how he and his collaborators pulled off one of the biggest Bond movies ever — the first, and only, 007 adventure to gross $1 billion at the box office.

“People forget these things very quickly, but MGM went bankrupt and the thought among the town at that time was: ‘Oh, it’s all over. They can’t afford it, that’s the end of Bond,’” Mendes explains. For roughly 10 months, production was shut down. And while technically no one was allowed to work on the script during that time because of legal reasons, there wasn’t anything stopping Mendes and his writers — Bond veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, with a rewrite from John Logan — from imagining how to address script concerns once the movie was back on its feet.

Two of those ideas were givens that the story needed to have: The death of M (played by Dame Judi Dench) and, for Craig, a villain who felt equal to Bond. It was the former that helped Mendes better realize that that loss would be the thematic fulcrum on which the rest of Bond’s journey during the Craig era would hinge.

“At a very early stage, there was a treatment — which was almost entirely ditched — but it ended with the death of M. And that was one of the things that hooked me in,” Mendes recalls. “Everyone was feeling that, with Barbara and Michael’s willingness to handle the character that way, that one decision, in a sense, changed the entire franchise. It acknowledged the passage of time, arguably for the first time ever, in the series. It acknowledged that they are mortal, that they are going to age and probably die.” (Craig’s Bond would do exactly that, another first, in 2021’s No Time to Die.)

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(The Hollywood Repoter)

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