{"id":2015350,"date":"2025-09-11T23:03:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2015350"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:03:39","slug":"john-cena-got-the-peacemaker-role-after-another-wwe-legend-turned-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-cena-got-the-peacemaker-role-after-another-wwe-legend-turned-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cena got the Peacemaker role after another WWE legend turned it down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While promoting season two of Peacemaker on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UqIQrDaDoJQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Howard Stern Show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Howard Stern Show<\/a> this week, producer James Gunn revealed that John Cena\u2019s role as the lead character was actually written for Dave Batista.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201c<em>It was Dave Bautista, who\u2019s a good friend of mine. Obviously he plays Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy. And I wrote the character of Peacemaker for him. And we offered him the role, but he was offered two other movies, and we weren\u2019t paying him a lot. So, he had to go where the money was.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>And I had always been a fan of John since Trainwreck, especially. I thought he was so, so funny in that movie, that I met with him. We talked. We became instant, instant friends. And then since then, I\u2019ve worked with him more than any other actor\u2026he is a fantastic guy, a fantastic actor.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Does Batista seem like a better fit for the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/376770\/dressed-as-peacemaker-john-cena-talks-his-final-wwe-opponent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Peacemaker costume;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Peacemaker costume<\/a> than Cena? Give me your thoughts in the comments below, Cagesiders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While promoting season two of Peacemaker on The Howard Stern Show this week, producer James Gunn revealed that John Cena\u2019s role as the lead character was actually written for Dave Batista. \u201cIt was Dave Bautista, who\u2019s a good friend of mine. Obviously he plays Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy. And I wrote the character [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2015351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[353879,369458,41332,316700,326584,351685],"class_list":["post-2015350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dave-batista","tag-does-batista","tag-james-gunn","tag-john-cena","tag-peacemaker","tag-the-howard-stern-show"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/John-Cena-got-the-Peacemaker-role-after-another-WWE-legend.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}