VIDEO: WWE releases first two minutes of WrestleMania 40 documentary
After a lengthy delay, WWE is gearing up for the release of its WrestleMania 40 behind-the-scenes documentary.
WrestleMania XL: Behind the Curtain was originally supposed to premiere on WWE’s YouTube channel on April 10, just three days after WrestleMania concluded. But the documentary was delayed with it being reported that WWE was still going through the vast amount of footage that was shot over WrestleMania weekend.
Now, nearly three months later, Behind the Curtain will finally premiere on YouTube at 7 p.m. Eastern time next Wednesday (July 3). Paul “Triple H” Levesque provided a first look at the documentary by uploading its first two minutes to social media today.
Behind the Curtain is narrated by Fox Sports reporter Tom Rinaldi and documents the change that WWE made to the WrestleMania 40 night two main event, pivoting to Roman Reigns vs. Cody Rhodes after fans rejected the idea of The Rock taking Rhodes’ place. The Rock instead turned heel for the first time in decades, teaming with Reigns against Rhodes & Seth Rollins at night one of WrestleMania 40.
The Rock pinned Rhodes in that tag match and may be a future challenger for Rhodes’ Undisputed WWE Championship.
While appearing on The Ringer’s Masked Man Show last month, former WWE head writer Brian Gewirtz — who now works for The Rock’s production company — addressed why the release of Behind the Curtain was delayed.
“There is, believe it or not, there is an awesome doc that WWE… The Rock isn’t holding hostage until he has approval of every frame… Jesus,” Gewirtz said. “But there was, I think there was an error in terms of promoting it so soon because it wasn’t ready to come out. So, that was an error that was made. But this was a doc that I think went from 11 minutes to 45 minutes, now it’s over an hour. And it’s pretty awesome, and it will be coming out in some form pretty soon, is my understanding.”