Paul Heyman To Release Facebook Application 26.7.2010
Posted by David Damage on Sunday, May 1, 2011
Under: Archive News
There
was a Top Cow presentation on Saturday for the announcement by Paul
Heyman on his project with former New Line Cinema exec Jeff Katz, who
used to work for WCW in the late 1990s. The presentation was opened up
by the legendary Marc Silvestri, who ran down Top Cow's big projects for
2010, and then it was Katz's turn.
I need to say that if you
haven't seen the footage from the Wowio Yacht on Friday, go out of your
way to see it. Heyman, Samoa Joe, Shane "Hurricane" Helms, Katz, and
several others were on a panel, and when Katz started to hype the
announcement, Heyman got all sarcastic and started saying "oh yeah,
it'll redefine the industry, biggest announcement ever, no one will ever
be the same, it's so huge we can't contain it, we're going to make the
announcement on a pay per view."
So Katz brings up Heyman, who
joked about the people who preceded them, since they would curse, and
then apologize. Heyman said "this is a pretty cool f****** idea, and if I
offended anyone with my language, I don't apologize for it." That got a
lot of laughs.
So, the project is based on the social networking
applications "Mafia Wars" and "Farmville," which are super popular on
Facebook and other social networking sites. Heyman described the project
as "all fighting and fight-entertainment forms, from MMA to Wrestling
to Boxing" and gave a bunch of "what if" scenarios of UFC fighters
against pro wrestlers or top big time boxers against wrestlers or MMA
fighters. Heyman said the project is scheduled to launch 4th quarter of
2010. Katz said he originally wanted to do a wrestling-only game, but
Heyman said he wanted it to be bigger better stronger.
That may
have been a tribute to Chris Bell, who was there talking with Heyman,
Samoa Joe, and Hurricane Helms. Bell was the writer and director of the
documentary "Bigger Stronger Faster."
In the hallway outside the
room, they were all very accommodating with autographs and posing with
fans. Katz said he has been trying to get this going for almost 2 years.
Samoa Joe was joking with a lot of fans about his kidnapping and
re-appearance. Heyman said he was "lost as hell" at Comic Con and
"woefully ill-informed on the entire culture," but that he was getting a
1st class education on the entire Comic Con life from Helms.
Katz kept stressing the gaming app would debut on his website, www.geekweek.com by the end of the year.
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