Mandatory Credit: Photo by Rob Latour/REX/Shutterstock (8155106ad) David Arquette 'Wheeler' film premiere, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 30 Jan 2017
Talking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, actor and infamously crowned WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette revealed that he was close to wrestling Cody Rhodes in AEW as part of the promotion for his documentary “You Cannot Kill David Arquette”.
Arquette had a plan for an angle between him and Rhodes: “I was talking to Cody Rhodes about trying to have him in the film, it was right as the AEW stuff was coming together. Yeah, I did (pitch a match). I thought it would be so funny like, ‘You disrespected the belt and my dad had it and I’m going to pay him back.'”
The whole thing didn’t happen due to TNT wanting to be paid for it: “That’s one thing that was a little upsetting, especially with AEW because they had all the guys in AEW that were in the movie and I wanted to go and do a match or something to promote the movie and they were like [no]. I think it was TNT, they were like trying to charge me to wrestle. It went through like the publicity department to TNT or something and they were like, ‘Well, it cost this to…’ ‘Forget it.’ We were looking to advertise on the shows, at least some form of advertisement within AEW, but they looked at it like, ‘We charge this much for someone to promote in the ring.’ That was a little depressing because I knew a bunch of the guys over there.”
H/T to Fightful for the transcription.