From MovieSet:

Think you’re tough enough to share the screen with professional MMA fighters? Prove it on video and you could be on your way to the set of an upcoming action film distributed by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

MovieSet.com is looking for the next MMA star to bring energy and excitement to an upcoming film. Capture our attention by showing us WHY YOU SHOULD BE AN MMA MOVIE STAR. Reenact a scene from a movie, show us your best moves, or talk smack to an opponent. Be sure to follow the full Rules and Regulations for your chance to win.

An all-star panel of filmmakers* and fighters will judge the 10 finalists chosen by the online community.  ON DECEMBER 1st THE JUDGES ANNOUNCE OUR WINNER AND DEATH WARRIOR WILL BE AVAILABLE IN STORES EVERYWHERE ON DVD AND BLU RAY!

Ugggh.  True story time: I pitched the idea of an MMA site before I ever got hired as a movie blogger*, and no one wanted it.  Now there’s a million of them.  I also pitched a news profile on Kimbo Slice back in 2006, but of course I was an idiot because who would even care about that guy?  Get out of our office, weirdo!  Now every crappy movie producer buys an Affliction shirt and thinks he’s an MMA aficionado. They’re exactly like that guy in the dreads and Che shirt whose parents are orthodontists.  Wanna be in an MMA movie?  Just show us how good you are at talking trash and looking tough!  You know, just like those MMA guys do!!  Who knows, you just may be the next Cam Gigandet!

*puts pistol in mouth, pulls trigger, misfires, goes back to eating Cheetos*

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I’ve posted trailers for 12 Rounds and The Tooth Fairy, and just when I thought WWE’s movie projects couldn’t get any worse… THEY TOTALLY REDEEM THEMSELVES!

[In "Knucklehead"], WWE Superstar, Paul “Big Show” Wight plays Walter Krunk, a 7-foot-tall, 440-pound naïve giant who was raised in the St. Thomas Orphanage and never left – until he takes to the road with Eddie and Mary.

Shortly after Eddie loses his new fighter and finds himself $50,000 in debt to longtime nemesis and bookie Memphis Earl (DENNIS FARINA), he discovers Walter, a bumbling life-long resident of the orphanage-turned-handyman with his own debt problems: The kitchen fire Walter caused will close down the church’s orphanage in a week unless he comes up with $50,000. Upon overhearing Walter’s predicament, Eddie convinces the no-nonsense head nun, Sister Francesca (WENDY MALICK) that Walter can win the $100,000 grand prize at the tournament to pay off the church’s debts. But in order to do so, he will need to take Walter on the road, enter amateur fights along the way, and teach him how to become a real fighter. [via WWE Corporate via MMAMania]

That’s right, a retarded giant fights MMA in order save the church orphanage – PLUS – no Cam Gigandet.  It might be the world’s most perfect premise. However, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that the exact phrase “retard MMA” has appeared in the FilmDrunk comments section no less than 34 times, the first going back to December 2007.  See also: my January 2008 headline “WILL MMA SAVE THE REC CENTER?“  Where’s our money, Vince McMahon?

Tagline: MMA: So easy a retarded church orphan could do it.