8 Radical Ideas To Save CM Punk

To date, the only acting role featuring CM Punk (if you don’t count his whole wrestling career) has been on cable TV show Maron, in which - like Curb Your Enthusiasm and Louis - comedian Marc Maron and friends play fictionalised versions of themselves for comic effect.

Punk was surprisingly good in a nuanced caricature of himself as a focused, no-nonsense, hard-training MMA fighter who’s never not in the gym, a direct contrast to the muddled, overweight and lazy Maron, who enlists his help to get fit again.

He’s still nominally earmarked to play villain Carl opposite AJ’s heroine Cat in William Butler’s upcoming post-apocalyptic horror movie Hellstorm, and he’s lobbied hard to be cast as an extra/bad guy/walker on his favourite show, The Walking Dead.

That, and the fact that he has contacts in Marvel - on the writing side, and because his buddy Dave Bautista plays Drax in the Guardians Of The Galaxy films - means that there may be room for him in some upcoming projects.

My pick of all the high-profile TV roles to go for, and knowing that Punk tends to aim high, would be Bullseye in an upcoming season of the Daredevil show on Netflix.

For those of you not au fait with the character, Bullseye is a psychotic assassin, a world class marksman known for his near supernatural ability to kill with any thrown projectile, improvised or not - coins, paper clips, playing cards, pens, if he can flick, flip, or throw it, it’s a lethal weapon. That unmatched facility makes him fundamentally arrogant and obnoxious as well as homicidal.

It’s pretty much a role Punk was born to play: the insufferable, unpleasant killer people love to hate and hate to love.