Kurt Angle‘s upcoming documentary, ANGLE on Peacock, wasn’t originally intended to air there.
ANGLE director Alex Perry recently sat down with PWMania. During the discussion, Perry revealed this documentary initially started as an independent project that WWE later acquired.
“This was somewhat of a unique scenario; I don’t think it’s too often that WWE acquires a documentary that started out as independent from WWE,” Alex Perry said. “A lot of stuff WWE puts out is, I believe, stuff that they create from the beginning within the WWE realm.
“But WWE ended up being a good place for an independent film like ours to end up – because we had a lot of WWE footage in our film, as well as Olympic footage. If WWE was the one that was going to distribute our film, we wouldn’t have to worry about licensing all of that WWE footage. So that ended up being a blessing.”
Despite WWE acquiring the documentary, Perry wanted to make it clear that the film they’re about to watch is what he and Angle originally intended it to be.
“This is the point I want to make,” Alex Perry began. “When WWE fans see the footage from our film, and they see similar-looking interview footage in the first trailer and so on; I want WWE fans to know we’re not pulling a fast one on them. This is the original film that Kurt and I intended.”
ANGLE debuts on Peacock on Saturday, September 2nd.
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