"Nacho Libre" - Jack Black's mexican wrestling movie

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...directed/written by the guys from Napolean Dynamite.

Anybody hear much about this? I know that UPW was involved in Jack's training...

kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

the summary from IMDB:

Nacho (Jack Black) is a young man who was raised in a Mexican monastery in Oaxaca and now works there as the cook, and takes it upon himself to rescue the holy place from financial ruin by joining a local Lucha Libre tournament and becoming one of the 'Luchadores'. Naturally, Nacho isn't acting out of purely altruistic measures, as he wishes to help Sister Encarnacion (Ana de la Reguera), a beautiful Mexican nun who has recently arrived at the monastery, as well as the gaggle of young orphans who live there.

So he's essentially King from Tekken, then?

kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

This sounds cool. How would Hollywood market a wrestling movie? I guess it'll be an easy sell to American Hispanics. What about cities like New York that have rich wrestling histories but aren't into the lucha style?

NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 22 January 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

It'll be a Jack Black movie and he's taking a chance by doing a wrestling movie. Gotta admit, wrestling is "hate" or "love".

Chuck Inman, Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)


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