Fans of atrocious acting, multiple scenes of overly muscled wrestlers slow motion diving away from explosions, and cartoonishly bad villains can now rejoice, as Deadline reports WWE Studios are at work on The Marine: Homefront, the third film in the franchise that began with 2006's The Marine.
The news comes as part of a larger story, detailing a 3-picture deal struck between the WWE and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, in which the new titles will premier on DVD. The films will be heavily promoted using the WWE's diverse array of marketing tools, which for anyone who watches Monday Night Raw or Friday Night Smackdown means we'll be seeing even more bad commercials and poorly timed promo spots, and more movie posters hanging in the General Manager's office. Who else in the world owns a poster for The Reunion other than Teddy Long??And who else in their right mind would dare hang it up?
The Marine starred WWE poster boy John Cena as...well, a Marine who must save his kidnapped wife from the clutches of a random bad guy, played by ex-Terminator Robert Patrick. The film was a mild success, earning about $22M but doing it's biggest business on DVD where it ranked #1 it's first week of release. The 2009 sequel was a misguided effort starring Ted Dibiase Jr. back when Vince McMahon still thought he had the goods to be a star. He was wrong, and the straight-to-DVD film failed to make much of an impression.
So the question now is who should star in The Marine: Homefront? Would John Cena return? Or will they approach a recently retired, experienced actor like Adam "Edge" Copeland? I'm going to throw out a name nobody is considering, and that's the hulking brute from Wales, Mason Ryan. If you've never seen him, dude looks like he was chiseled from holy marble....
