EC3 will continue freeing the narrative as long as there’s an audience for it.
During a recent interview with WrestleZone, EC3 spoke about how recent events changed plans for his Control Your Narrative brand. CYN ultimately went on hiatus from a live event perspective, but the brand still has a third Free The Narrative project in the works.
EC3 spoke about the reception of stand-alone Narrative features compared to it working as a touring wrestling promotion, sharing what the end goal is for both projects.
“I think presenting something — I think it’s tough with attention to detail and attention spans when you’re trying something so new. I think throwing it all at once, as opposed to easing people in and guiding them through a process to see if they enjoy it or they don’t, may have been the only mistake. By making a full feature that featured Matt Cardona and myself, maybe fans not familiar with the other people we wanted to develop, maybe didn’t catch their interest as much,” EC3 explained, “but I think in a seasonal kind of short increments it plays very well.
“Both projects are completely self-funded, self-created, self-produced, self-music. Everything’s done in-house by various people, so very proud of being able to do it and very proud to be able to make it a trilogy in a sense, to at least see one entire vision all the way through and then take that for what it is. Does it continue in that essence and evolve? Does it live in history as what it was? There’s a lot of options for there, and we really see where the fans dictate it, and the performers that love being a part of it dictate it.”
EC3 said that giving the performers the right platform is the main focus, adding that Free The Narrative 3 could inform where they go next.
The upcoming Free The Narrative 3 was in progress when Killer Kross and Braun Strowman returned to WWE, so a potential fourth entry would leave a clean slate in terms of a theme. EC3 says he’d love to see the series continue, but stressed that there will be variables to address.
“As far as a fourth, I think no matter what happens, it has to therefore in itself, be part of a great rebrand and change because the original vision was… I mean, I’m EC3, [the idea was] ‘let’s do three. If we can knock one out, [maybe] make it a trilogy.’ I think the reception and the possibility of it being — it is time, effort, it takes a lot. It takes a lot out of us physically. It takes a lot of us mentally. Is it super profitable? That would be the question. So when it comes down to a business perspective, where to take it.
“I would love to do something along the lines of it in a 12-part series on a streaming network that is fully invested and behind it. Just to give a different look and art form to what professional wrestling is. That would be my main goal and vision going forward. But then when you bring other people into things, other people have skin in the game and then visions get, not corrupted but changed, or there’s a lot of negotiation going on. So, to be determined.”
EC3 said he would love to keep things going as long as it provided a service to talent and entertainment to fans, noting that it’s worth it if they can hit those marks.
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