In what might be the most chaotic crossover since peanut butter met jelly in a steel cage match, AEW stars Lance Archer and Brian Cage have officially made the jump from Dynamite to the silver screen, joining Steven Spielberg’s upcoming, still-unnamed UFO flick. Yes, you read that correctly: AEW’s most jacked tag team and the king of cinematic storytelling are now working the same card.
According to PWInsider, filming went down at the Paramount Theater in Long Island, New York, which is basically the Madison Square Garden of theater-sci-fi-wrestling mashups, apparently. Also confirmed on-site was Chavo Guerrero Jr., who’s acting as the referee both in the scene and for the chaos behind it—because if you’re going to fake a moonsault under the watchful eye of Spielberg, you’d better have a Guerrero in charge of the stunts.
While the film’s plot remains as mysterious as a Bray Wyatt promo, rumors suggest it involves UFOs. Which makes sense, because honestly, if aliens did land, they’d probably do it in the middle of a worked shoot match, then get powerbombed back into orbit by Brian Cage before they could finish asking for directions.
Archer and Cage are no strangers to acting like otherworldly forces—between Archer’s “Murderhawk Monster” energy and Cage’s human-tank physique, they’ve basically been space invaders in wrestling form for years. Unfortunately, the timing wasn’t perfect for Cage, who filmed his part before suffering a knee injury on March 20. That injury benched him for AEW Dynasty, where he and Archer were originally set to challenge for the Tag Titles. Archer, true to form, just kept swinging, even if he lost to Brody King last week on Dynamite.
And just so you know this movie’s not some indie deep cut with a $12 budget and a green screen taped to a van, the cast also includes Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, and probably an alien or two who will get chokeslammed through a galaxy.
Final thoughts: Wrestling, aliens, Spielberg, and muscle-bound chaos? The only way this gets better is if the movie ends with Archer throwing an alien into a flying saucer via Spanish Fly. Take my money now.