WWE Unreal Director Chris Weaver Says WWE Did Not Dictate Storylines In Netflix Series

Chris Weaver, the director of WWE Unreal, discusses the extent of WWE’s influence on the storytelling in the Netflix series.

In an interview with Fightful’s Joel Pearl and Jeremy Lambert, series director Chris Weaver revealed that WWE was not pushing any particular narratives in the series. Instead, his team would present WWE with the storylines that were developing and that they believed would work well for the show. He does acknowledge that WWE alluded to certain things, but it was more like friendly suggestions rather than trying to impose specific stories.

“It was very much us telling them what we thought would be good for this series and then we get feedback on that. There was maybe an instance or two where they were like, ‘You might want to do this,’ but not black and white, ‘John Cena is going to turn heel.’ It’s not like that. It was just, ’You might consider following this person a little more than you might have thought. They would allude to stuff, but it was very much us saying, ‘Here are the characters we like and would make a good television show and entertaining.’ As we learned more what the creative would be and their story arc for the longer view, we would adapt and adjust and some people would come off the board. Jade gets hurt, so we know we’re not going to follow Jade until she comes back. It was very much us saying, ‘Here is what we would like to do,’ and almost every single time it was, ‘Sure’ or ‘Consider this also,’ but they didn’t really push us any direction on who to follow or what to shoot.”

The entire series is now available to binge-watch on Netflix. However, if you’re excited to explore the stories from the series, you can click here to see what the top headlines are about the docuseries.

Elsewhere in the interview, Weaver opened up about the possibility of a second season for the series. Read his comments here.

Check out the full interview with Chris Weaver embedded above.