Even though AEW may have added more people to its creative and production teams, Brandon Cutler made it clear that all ideas must be given to and accepted by AEW President Tony Khan.
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Even though AEW may have added more people to its creative and production teams, Brandon Cutler made it clear that all ideas must be given to and accepted by AEW President Tony Khan.
In an interview with “Comedy Store Wrestling,” Cutler, who acts on-screen and is AEW’s Executive Producer of Content, talked about how the company’s creative process leads to Khan. Khan has the final say over what makes it to the screen and what doesn’t, but Cutler stressed that it is still a team effort.
“It absolutely all still does funnel through him, but he does have some people that help him with that or something like that,” Cutler said. “Usually, the coaches will help [talent] individually with their matches and stuff, and then still, the coach will go to Tony to get final approval for anything and whatnot. Depending on the match, it is a lot of – like Christopher Daniels coaches a lot of the Young Bucks’ matches, so he has a lot of input usually or ideas that he’ll like spitball while they’re playing the match and say like, ‘Hey guys, what if you guys did something like this or this?’ It usually ends up in the match kind of thing.”
“Some stuff that you might see out there is somebody’s idea from the back or something that you’ll never know,” Cutler continued, “but it gets in there and then that’s just kind of part of the match or part of the angle. It ends up being like, they’ll go to Tony and be like, ‘Hey, I know this was the original idea,’ how that whole idea of, ‘how can we beat up Nick and Brandon?’ That was like five different ways of kind of doing it, and everyone had an idea or a pitch or something.”
“It was just like a collaboration of like ten [or] 12 people all like saying, ‘Oh, I like that idea. What if we did this? What if we did this?’ Then it kind of is like, ‘All right, well what are we going to take to Tony’ and be like, ‘Okay, this is what we landed on. We’ll do a match with them then.'” H/T to Wrestling Inc.
A new story came out earlier this week that said AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy was the new backroom producer. As part of his job, he had to give information to the production team at ringside through a headset and run through fights with the stars before they came out from behind the curtain.
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