This morning, Triple H and Stephanie McMahon publicly reacted to “Wrestling Isn’t Wrestling,” a 24-minute “somewhat-mostly-accurate educational” parody film on Triple H by screenwriter and director Max Landis.
Landis was elated to receive their approval on the film. He posted the following in the “SquaredCircle” section on Reddit: “Triple H AND Stephanie tweeted me.
“I mean I’d been told something was coming but I never imagined they’d do it publicly. It’s a bizarre feeling, I have no real idea how to react.
“I’m not quite marking I’m just stunned. I’m too shocked to mark. I feel really happy but also just sort of dazed.
“When you make a tribute to someone’s art and they respond directly, it’s a bizarre, almost invasive feeling. I’m left feeling almost kind of exposed, you know? “I made a twenty minute short film about you.” “Yes, thank you, it’s awesome.” “WHAT YOU SAW IT WHAT THE f–k NO THAT WAS MY PRIVATE TWENTY MINUTE SHORT FILM ABOUT YOU”
“Mind boggling.
“Thanks everyone on r/squaredcircle for helping it get out there, by the way. I decided to make the short after my r/squaredcircle thread asking if I should got such a positive response, so it’s really homegrown in that way.”
Landis clarified that the film is about the Triple H character, and not Paul Levesque.
“It’s about the character. He IS one of the all time greats. But what “greatness” means in wrestling isn’t…you know, what you think it means,” he wrote.
