Chris Jericho Planning His Own ‘Painmaker’ Superhero Film: ‘How Many More Spider-Man Movies Do We Need?’
etcanada.comBack in 2019, Chris Jericho emerged with a new pro-wrestling persona dubbed Painmaker, a deranged and violent character inspired by serial killers that he debuted for New Japan Pro Wrestling.
In a recent interview with ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante, Jericho reveals that he’s reviving Painmaker for an in-ring return, as well as a new comic book series, which he’d like to see form the basis of a new superhero-style movie.
At the time he came up with Painmaker, the Canadian wrestling icon was looking for yet another way to reinvent himself. “I was like, it needs to be something darker than [my WWE persona].
And I thought like, what would a serial killer look like if he was a pro wrestler?” he recalled of the character, who wore a leather jacket adorned with spikes and creepy makeup inspired by iconic shock-rocker Alice Cooper. READ MORE: Chris Jericho Credits Winnipeg As ‘The Genesis’ Of AEW, Promises ‘Magical Night’ When Dynamite Debuts In His Hometown Once he settled on the look and the name, he took a deep dive into who the character really is. “And then the tried to create a whole backstory for it to where we have a we have a Painmaker graphic novel where the Painmaker is now an intergalactic serial killer who has reformed his evil ways and now searches the galaxy to hunt down and arrest or kill other serial killers,” Jericho explained. “But he still has the urge to kill innocent people, and he has to give in to those urges from time to time.
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