YOU CANNOT KILL DAVID ARQUETTE

A film by David Darg and Price James

2020 SXSW Film Festival

Official Selection, Documentary Spotlight. Running Time: 90 Minutes

Branded as the most hated man in wrestling after winning a highly controversial WCW World Heavyweight Championship in 2000, actor David Arquette attempts a rocky return to the sport that stalled his promising Hollywood career. Dangerously determined to redeem his reputation and reclaim his self-respect, Arquette will stop at nothing to earn his place in professional wrestling.

In drive-in theaters 8/21. Available on Digital and On Demand 8/28. Check out the trailer above along with our throwback interview with David Arquette about his wrestling career.

ABOUT SUPER LTD

SUPER LTD is a boutique film distribution company and incubator focused on films and release strategies that seize upon the political and cultural moment.  SUPER LTD’s debut film was Anthony Bourdain’s Wasted: The Story of Food Waste.  The company also partnered with NEON on Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov’s award-winning and record- breaking Honeyland, which is the first non-fiction feature to land Academy Award® nominations for Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film in the same year.  Its slate also includes:  Jack Bryan’s Active Measures, and Gene Graham’s This One’s for the Ladies. 

BIOS

David Darg | Co-Director, Producer and Cinematographer

David Darg is an Oscar nominated and Emmy winning director, cinematographer and film editor. He received critical praise for his documentary Body Team 12 which garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 88th Academy Awards. Darg is the co-founder of RYOT a US media company acquired by Verizon in 2016. He was named one of Esquire Magazine’s “2012 Americans of the Year” for his work in Haiti as well as a “Hollywood Maverick” by Details magazine for his documentary work in crisis and disaster zones. In addition to his Academy nomination and Emmy awards for directing, Darg is an Emmy winning editor having won in 2017 with Body Team 12 and nominated in 2018 with Fear Us Women. In 2020 Darg received the SXSW Adobe editing award for “You Cannot Kill David Arquette”

His films have won numerous film festival awards including Tribeca where he has premiered 5 documentaries.

In 2019 Darg was Oscar nominated as a producer on the documentary Lifeboat.

His commercial work includes branded content for Gatorade, Sony Ericsson and commercials for Uber and P&G.

Darg spent over a decade as a first responder to natural disasters. He lived in China for 1 year following the 2008 Sichuan quake and lived in Haiti for 2.5 years after the quake there. As a journalist and photographer Darg has been published in National Geographic, BBC, Reuters and numerous US publications. Darg is the recipient of the 2015 Nelson Mandela ‘Changemaker of Peace’ award.

Price James | Co-Director, Cinematographer

Price James is a comedy director and scriptwriter based between Los Angeles and London. Commonly known for comedy, genre and creative concepts, his high energy performances veer into fantasy and action movie satire. If Terry Gilliam and John Landis had a child, this is that child.

Price cut his chops at Ridley Scott Associates for a decade, directing commercials & music videos. He now finds himself at home in short and feature length narrative and documentary work. He is known for Action Man: Battlefield Casualties (featuring Matt Berry) and You cannot kill David Arquette (2020). 

David Arquette | Subject, Executive Producer

David Arquette has years of professional acting, directing and producing experience and has appeared in a multitude of films including the SCREAM franchise, HAMLET 2, THE GREY ZONE, STEALING SINATRA, NEVER BEEN KISSED, EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, DREAM WITH THE FISHES, etc. David was featured as an arc opposite Jerry O’Connell in the series CARTER, as well as a role on CREEP SHOW for AMC and in David Ayer’s DEPUTY opposite Stephen Dorf for Fox. David was featured in the Sundance film MOPE this year opposite Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Kelly Sry. He also just wrapped a feature with Lucas Jade Zumann, as well wrapping back to back lead roles in a new Duplass Brothers Produced feature titled MISEDUCATION OF BINDU and MOBTOWN opposite Jennifer Esposito and PJ Byrne.

David was last seen in the thriller SPREE opposite Joe Keery from STRANGER THINGS, which premiered at Sundance in 2020.

David recently co-founded XTR, a new production studio, which premiered a number of films at Sundance in 2020 and also produced the highly anticipated feature documentary on himself called YOU CANNOT KILL DAVID ARQUETTE set to hit theatres summer 2020.

It was also recently announced that he will be returning to the SCREAM franchise as Dewey Riley in the upcoming relaunch. Next up, David can be seen in MOPE directed by Lucas Heyne as well as SPREE directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko.

Christina McLarty Arquette | Producer, Subject

Christina McLarty Arquette is an Emmy award-winning journalist, with a decade long career in news. For many years she hosted and reported for Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, before leaving to have her two baby boys. Recently she produced YOU CANNOT KILL DAVID ARQUETTE, an official SXSW selection. The documentary, which is about her husband David Arquette’s return to professional wrestling, won SXSW’s Adobe Editing Award. Neon’s Super LTD acquired the film. Christina also produced her first feature film 12 HOUR SHIFT, which was set to world premiere at Tribeca 2020, and recently acquired by Magnolia’s Magnet Releasing. Christina is a lead investor in XTR, as well as Senior Advisor. In 2018, Christina produced the critically acclaimed documentary Survivors Guide to Prison, directed by Oscar Nominated Matthew Cooke and Executive Produced by Susan Sarandon.Christina attended NYU Journalism School where she graduated with the highest honors. She is currently getting her Masters in Clinical Counseling at Northwestern, with a focus on providing clinical counseling services to the prison population. Christina is also on the board of The Arkansas Cinema Society.

Bryn Mooser | Producer 

Bryn Mooser is a twice Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning filmmaker, humanitarian, and the founder and CEO of XTR. In 2012 Mooser co-founded RYOT a media company specializing in documentary film, Virtual/Augmented Reality and branded content. Over his career he has produced more than 200 linear and immersive films garnering multiple Emmy Awards, two Oscar nominations, a Peabody and a Cannes Lion. Mooser sold RYOT to Verizon in 2016, becoming a SVP and helping create the roadmap for immersive and documentary films for AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon. While at Verizon, Mooser built the branded content studio for AOL/Yahoo HuffPost and Tumblr creating content for the top brands in the world and expanding RYOT to 15 offices globally.

As a humanitarian, Mooser spent three years in the Peace Corps in West Africa, and was the Country Director for Artists for Peace and Justice in Haiti. While in Haiti he helped build the nation’s largest Cholera center, and a High School in Port-au-Prince that today educates nearly 3,000 Haitian youth per year. For his charitable work he was made a recipient of the prestigious Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award, and Esquire Magazine named him as one of their Americans of the Year.

Stacey Souther | Producer

Stacey Souther is a producer, director, documentarian and actor based in Los Angeles. Originally moving from Georgia to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting, in 2011 Stacey was cast as the lead in the award-winning short film, CELL/PHONE which screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. As a filmmaker, his documentary, VALERIE, paints a moving portrait of legendary actress Valerie Perrine’s career, and subsequent battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Ross Levine | Producer 

Ross’s producing career began under his brother Jonathan’s wing on the set of the critically acclaimed movie The Wackness(a touchstone film for anyone growing up in the 90’s) His early career gained numerous VMA and Grammy nominations for music videos for the likes of Beyonce, The Killers, Pharrell, Lady Gaga and more recently he’s won multiple awards for advertising content.

Ross has worked with an acclaimed and diverse pool of talent from Jon Watts(Spider Man, Homecoming) Melina Matsoukas(Insecure, Queen and Slim,) Hiro Murai(Atlanta) and Jonathan Krisel(Portlandia)

His entry into scripted narrative came on the cult classic and highly controversial indie neo noir, “The Canyons”– directed by the legendary Paul Schrader and written by provocateur Bret Easton Ellis. Ross continued his work with Bret Easton Ellis on the Fullscreen original series “The Deleted” – which premiered in December, 2017.

Ross is currently in post production on a feature length music documentary about Pop and LGBTQ+ icon Charli XCX as well in development on an Art Crime documentary series.

Ross was born and bred in New York City , graduated from Occidental College in 2003 and currently resides in Los Angeles.                            

Paul Rogers | Editor

Paul Rogers began his professional career in 2007 editing documentary films for public television in Alabama, winning 4 Emmy Awards. With the help and support of his wife, Becky Rogers, Paul made the jump to Los Angeles in 2013 and kicked off a career in music videos with the DANIELS’ directed ‘Turn Down For What’ which won Video of the Year at the UK Music Video Awards. He further collaborated with DANIELS on the short films ‘Interesting Ball’ and ‘Boat Dad’ as well as one half of DANIELS’ Daniel Scheinert on the A24 feature film ‘The Death of Dick Long,’ which premiered at Sundance in 2018. He is currently editing their newest feature film ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’

Along with feature films, he has edited for the Eric Andre Show, Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, Haim, and Thundercat among others.

Paul has also collaborated extensively with acclaimed director and business partner Kahlil Joseph. Such projects include ‘Lemonade’ for Beyonce, ‘Process’ for Sampha, and Joseph’s most recent work ‘BLK NWS.’

He edited the upcoming documentary ‘You Cannot Kill David Arquette,’ an official SXSW selection and winner of the Adobe Editing award at SXSW.

Paul is a partner in the editorial company PARALLAX located in NE Los Angeles.

Jacob Bloomfield | Sound Designer

Jacob Bloomfield-Misrach is a composer and sound supervisor. He owns the post production company IMRSV Sound, and has expanded the company nationally, partnering with Berkeley Sound Artists. Jacob now oversees 100 projects per year for clients like Marvel, Google, Apple, and Facebook, and won a Telly Award in 2016. He recently composed the score for the Slamdance Official Selection Majnuni, and supervised the sound for the 2020 Sundance Award winning film, Crip Camp, which was released by Netflix and the Obama’s production company, Higher Ground. 

Matt Glass | Composer

Matt Glass is a filmmaker/composer and co-founder of the production company HCT.media. He has an MFA in Photography from

Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has directed and composed music for several documentaries, including “Fallujah: Art, Healing and PTSD” and the television series “Lost LA” for which he and his business partner Jordan Long won several Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards. In 2017, he 2nd unit directed Karen Gillan’s BAFTA-nominated feature directorial debut, “The Party’s Just Beginning,” and he scored and co-directed the feature film “Squirrel”. In 2019 he DPed, produced and scored the film “12 Hour Shift” which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. That year, he also scored several short films for filmmakers like Karen Gillan, Rose McIver and Brea Grant. In 2020, He co-directed, scored and produced the upcoming feature film “Ghosts of the Ozarks” which stars Tim Blake Nelson, David Arquette and Angela Bettis.

Dimiter Yordanov | Composer

Dimiter Yordanov is an American singer-songwriter and composer from Seattle, Washington, best known for creating all of the music in docuseries “The Kindness Diaries” on Netflix and Amazon. He is often recognized for his proficiency with multiple instruments and styles of music, including a repertoire of classical piano pieces. Dimiter was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria months before he and his family migrated to the United States where they eventually settled in Seattle, Washington. He studied Architecture at University of Washington for a year before dropping out to pursue a career in music. Dimiter has since scored numerous films and television series, while also writing, producing, and releasing several albums as a singer-songwriter, frequently performing live between Seattle and Los Angeles.

Will Patterson | Composer

Will Patterson is a composer based out of Austin, TX. After studying film at the University of Texas in Austin, Patterson was hired by director Terrence Malick as a lead sound designer on three feature films. After finishing his work with Malick, Patterson started the company High Tide Post, where he composes music for commercials, films, and television. In addition to film work, Patterson also records music under the band name Sleep Good.

Ric Flair | Subject 

Richard Morgan Fliehr is a retired American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ric Flair. Also known as “The Nature Boy”, Flair is considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time with a professional career that spans 41 years and is noted for his lengthy and highly decorated tenures with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE). Flair is officially recognized by WWE, TNA and PWI as a 16-time World Heavyweight Champion (seven-time NWA Champion, seven-time WCW Champion and two-time WWF Champion) although his actual tally of World Championship reigns varies by source Flair considers himself a 21-time world champion.

In World Championship Wrestling (WCW), he also had two stints as a booker in 1989–1990 and 1994. Flair also became the first and only man to have won the WWF Championship in a Royal Rumble match, when he accomplished this in the 1992 edition of the event. In 2012, Flair became the first ever double inductee in the WWE Hall of Fame, first inducted in 2008 for his individual career, and for a second time in 2012 as a member of the Four Horsemen. He is also an NWA Hall of Famer (class of 2008). Flair’s hair styles and mannerisms are based on those of Buddy Rogers, who previously and famously used the “Nature Boy” gimmick in the 1950s and ’60s. Coincidentally, Flair also followed Rogers in becoming the second man to win both the WWF and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Flair was the first ever WCW World Champion, having been awarded the title following WCW’s succession from the NWA in 1991. With that, he also became the first WCW Triple Crown Champion upon being awarded the title, having already held the United States and World Tag Team titles. In 2005, he completed WWE’s version of the Triple Crown when he won the Intercontinental Championship, after already holding the WWF (now WWE) Championship, as well as the World Tag Team Championship, becoming the third man to win both the WCW and WWE Triple Crown (after Bret Hart and Chris Benoit). Using the officially recognized totals (by WWE, TNA and PWI) of 16 World Championships and a record six United States Championship reigns, Flair has won a total of 30 different major championships between the NWA, WCW, and WWE, with numerous regional titles also to his credit.

Diamond Dallas Page | Subject

A star collegiate basketball player, Diamond Dallas Page entered the nightclub business in the 1970s, becoming one of South Florida’s top club owners and promoters. He began training to become an in-ring performer at the age of 35, the oldest rookie in Pro Wrestling history. “DDP” captivated audiences around the world with matches alongside greats like Hulk Hogan, Goldberg, Ric Flair, Randy “Macho Man” Savage, and the N.W.O. before being inducted to the WWE Hall Of Fame. In 2011, Page launched DDP YOGA for non-yoga audiences. Hundreds of thousands of people have purchased the program’s DVDs and subscribed to its one-of-a-kind DDPYOGANOW APP. DDPY is regularly used by many notable athletes and touring musicians. Page has also excelled in the film and television worlds. Projects include The Resurrection Of Jake The Snake, Ready To Rumble, First Daughter, Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects, Hollywood Squares, Shark Tank and Gods & Secrets. 

Eric Bischoff | Subject

Eric Aaron Bischoff is an American entrepreneur, television producer, professional wrestling booker, podcast host, and on-screen personality. He is best known for serving as Executive Producer and later President of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and subsequently, the on-screen General Manager of WWE’s Raw brand. Bischoff has also worked with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) where he served as Executive Producer of Impact Wrestling. With an amateur background in taekwondo, Bischoff also sporadically performed as an in-ring competitor, and is a former WCW Hardcore Champion. He wrote an autobiography, titled Controversy Creates Cash, which was released in 2006 under WWE Books.

The Nasty Boys | Subjects

The Nasty Boys are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags, active from the mid to late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. They began their careers in the American Wrestling Association in 1985 and began teaming together as The Nasty Boyz in 1986. They first started moving up the cards while in Memphis, as a heel team against the face team of the Midnight Rockers. In 1988, they moved to Florida Championship Wrestling, where they won five Tag Team Championship between 1989 and 1990. Their gimmick was that of anti-social punks who specialized in hardcore wrestling and brawling. They were noted for their distinctive all-black “street look”, which, while very commonplace among today’s wrestlers, was vastly different from the colorful attire of their wrestling peers of the late 1980s-early 1990s. This included graffiti-sprayed T-shirts, chain-adorned leather trenchoats, and their distinctive mullet-hawk haircuts. Unlike most professional wrestling tag teams, Jerry “Biff” Sags and Brian “Buff” Knobbs were childhood friends (both hailing from Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania) who put themselves together, whereas most tag teams were and still are matched together by bookers.

RJ City | Subject

RJ Skinner, better known as RJ City, leaves no medium untouched. He can be seen as ‘Gildar’ in the kids show ‘Splatalot’ airing on Nickelodeon, BBC and in over 100 countries worldwide. He has also made appearances on the Disney Channel, ABC Spark and Teletoon as well as starring alongside Kevin Nash and Robert Maillet in ‘Monster Brawl’, currently available on Netflix. As ‘RJ City’, his professional wrestling exploits have led him across an ever-growing list of cities in North American including an East Coast tour with Hulk Hogan and a feature in Maxim Magazine. He also became the first man in history to sing an Ethel Merman song in a wrestling ring.

Peter Avalon | Subject

Peter Hernandez is an American professional wrestler, known by his ring name, Peter Avalon. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and is best known for his appearances in Championship Wrestling from Hollywood and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. Hernandez also appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Norv Fernum. Avalon debuted on November 15, 2008 for the Empire Wrestling Federation against Chris Kadillak in San Bernardino, California in a losing effort. He debuted for the Alternative Wrestling Show early the following year. He then went on to win the Alternative Wrestling Show’s Light-Heavyweight Title from TJ Perkins on April 26, 2009 in Rowland Heights, California. Awarded the new AWS Lightweight Championship at the next show, he then defended the championship amongst wrestlers in the Southern California area like Charles Mercury, Chris Kadillak, and Malachi Jackson. He later got into a feud with Human Tornado over the AWS championship, which would culminate in a Falls Count Anywhere match on October 23, 2009 where he was the winner. Avalon continued to compete throughout Southern California in 2010 for companies like EWF, AWS, SoCal Pro Wrestling, Mach 1 Pro Wrestling, and New Wave Pro Wrestling. He debuted and competed in Portland, Oregon and surrounding areas for the West Coast Wrestling Connection, later making his Pro Wrestling Guerrilla debut at “Seven” on July 30, 2010 in a 6-man tag match.

Jack “Jungle Boy” Perry | Subject

Jack Perry, better known by his ring names Jungle Boy and Nate Coy, is a professional American wrestler born in 1997. He began pursuing wrestling in high school and is best known for his work on the independent circuit and with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he signed in 2015. He is also the son of Luke Perry, the famous American actor and wrestler who passed away in 2019.