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David von erich4/12/2023 Efron is on board to play Kevin Von Erich, and that seems like a good match of actor and part, at least in the abstract. (His sons have followed him into the business.)Īnyway, back to the movie, which has a great title ( The Iron Claw, named after the family’s signature submission hold), a writer-director (Sean Durkin, known for 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene), and a star (Zac Efron, certainly jacked enough to play a professional wrestler). Two more (Kerry and Chris, the youngest) would take their own lives in the next few years. The Von Erichs were already seemingly cursed when we put brothers Kerry and Kevin on the cover, along with their dad Fritz, in February 1988 the cover headline was “Tragic Empire.” By the time Skip Hollandsworth wrote the accompanying story, three of Fritz’s boys had died. They once ruled the rings of Texas, getting rock-band popular in the 1980s before tragedy struck and didn’t stop striking until it had wiped out almost the entire family. You may have heard that independent film powerhouse A24 is making a movie about the Von Erichs, the dynasty that once dominated the old World Class Championship Wrestling promotion, operating out of the long-demolished Sportatorium near downtown Dallas.
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