It seems as though the fans don’t get to see it if Vince McMahon doesn’t get it.
Back in 1999, WWE hoped to piggyback off of the massive popularity of the newly released The Blair Witch Project film and aired vignettes for The Blond Bytch Project, which Blue Meanie and Stevie Richards were set to feature in. After a few scenes were filmed, WWE Chairman, Vince McMahon ordered the pair, alongside producers/writers Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara to show him what they had filmed. Once it was looked over by McMahon, the segments were nixed altogether without much explanation at the time.
ECW legend Blue Meanie recently appeared on the WSI: Wrestling Shoot Interviews podcast and would delve into why Vince McMahon nixed The Blonde Bytch Project.
“The Blonde Bytch Project was Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara, it was their idea. I got called to go up to the warehouse one day and me and Stevie [Richards] filmed pretty much scene-to-scene, scenes from The Blair Witch Project, in parody form. Every scene that people have done during parodies, we did and the end scene was, in The Blair Witch Project, the guy in the movie runs down to the basement and his friends are in the corner and the camera falls over. Well I hear Stevie calling my name, I look over and Stevie’s calling my name, I run into the house, it’s Ed Ferrara’s house, I run downstairs to the basement, Stevie’s in the corner and he’s wearing Sable’s catsuit and had a blonde wig on and he goes ‘Hey Meanie, you ready for the grind?’, he starts doing the grind and then the camera falls over like in the movie.
“So, I was going to be on the first SmackDown and it aired live to the crowd, we were in Kansas City, it was our first-time back to Kansas City after the Owen [Hart] incident and they aired it live to the crowd, so if you were in Kansas City, you saw it… and it got a decent reaction at the monitor. I remember guys going ‘oh that was great!’ and then they aired the vignette and maybe the precursor was on Sunday Night Heat and the rest was supposed to be on SmackDown. I set my VCR, I was sitting there watching it and it never aired. So, next week, Vince [McMahon] and Ed come up to me and they go ‘look, we wanted to roll with it but then USA Today put out an article saying how popular The Blair Witch Project was and talking about all these parodies of it and they said The Blonde Bytch Project was going to air on SmackDown and this was in USA Today and when it made it to Vince, Ed said that Vince had never seen The Blair Witch Project, so he didn’t get it and he scrapped it…and that was it.”
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