Ending Of WWE’s Bloodline Storyline Has “Already Been Rewritten Multiple Times”

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Paul Heyman discussed the development of WWE’s The Bloodline storyline over the last several years in an interview with Phil Schneider of TheRinger.com.

โ€œIโ€™m a huge proponent of writing the last page of the script first. Itโ€™s always to the advantage of long-term storytelling. I donโ€™t think it was ever done better, ever, than the Brian De Palmaโ€“directed movie Carlitoโ€™s Way, because the very first frame of the movie tells you the ending. The first scene in that movie is the end of the movie. Then youโ€™re taken on a ride with these characters that are so layered. The audience is truly emotionally invested in them to such a degree that when you know the movie is coming to the conclusion, you have forgotten what the ending is, and youโ€™re rooting for Carlito, even though you were just told less than two hours ago heโ€™s going to die on that train platform at the hands of this person in front of his soon-to-be bride. The magnificence of that storytelling is, to this day, so dramatically underappreciated. Iโ€™ve always been of the belief that the launch of the story is the first push toward the conclusion. The finish is everything.โ€

โ€œAll that being said. I think I would suggest the ending of this story has already been rewritten multiple times because the world has changed since the inception of the Bloodline story. Therefore, what was a clear vision of how this should play out almost four years ago changed along the way based on not only the audienceโ€™s investment in the characters and the stories but the world itselfโ€”society itself, pop culture itself, sports culture itself has all changed, and now we can see the trajectory that weโ€™ve been on takes us so much further than we ever initially imagined.โ€