CM Punk Says He’s Been Offered a Chance To Direct, Will Likely Happen In Next Year

CM Punk says that he’s been offered a chance to direct a movie, noting that it’s something that will “more than likely” happen in the next year. Punk has been doing more acting as of late alongside his wrestling, and is currently promoting his role in Ryan Prows’ new horror film Night Patrol.

Punk appeared on My Mom’s Basement With Robbie Fox and during the conversation, he was asked about potentially directing a film. Punk noted that he’s been offered a chance. He didn’t give specifics, though he did mention the found footage anthology franchise V/H/S/ as a “pretty good way” to get started in such a way. You can see the highlights below:

On Potentially Directing:

“So, it’s been offered. And it’s one of those things, a lot like writing comic books or fighting in the UFC, that it was offered to me. And it’s kind of unknown and scary, so now I have to do it.

“So, we’re — yeah. I mean, and I think the V/H/S series is a a pretty good way to get my feet wet definitely in that regard. So yeah it’s definitely something that is more than likely going to happen within the next year.”

On His Reaction To Being Offered a Chance to Direct:

“I’ve got to. It got offered to me and I just went, ‘What? Why? Why me?’ ‘Well, why not?’ ‘Oh, okay. Yeah. All right, okay.’ So now I got to do this.”

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