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Punk joins the show’s previously announced cast members Melanie Scrofano, Romy Weltman, David James Elliott, and Andy McQueen, with Steve Ogg appearing in a recurring role. The description for the series is, “On one miraculous day in rural Wisconsin, the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. But this is no zombie story as the ‘revived’ appear and act just like they once were. When local officer and single mother Dana Cypress (Scrofano) is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she’s left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect.”
Punk is a die hard comic fan — before he goes down the ramp to the ring he calls out the Thing’s catchphrase, “It’s clobberin’ time!” — and has written comics in the past, including co-writing 2015’s Thor Annual #1, the story “The Most Cursed” in Vertigo’s 2015 series Strange Sports Stories #3, co-wrote the 2015 Drax ongoing from Marvel, and wrote a Master of Kung-Fu one-shot for Marvel in 2017. Punk joining the cast of an adaptation of a horror comic makes perfect sense. Punk is also doing a movie, joining the cast of Ryan Prow’s Night Patrol in a major role, making him a very busy man.
Punk’s straight-edge lifestyle is incongruent with pro wrestling, since he refuses to use performance enhancing drugs of any kind. This makes bouncing back from injuries even harder, something that has plagued him since his return. Punk even almost considered not returning to wrestling before his AEW debut.
Punk’s current role in the WWE — a special attraction who also helps with the training of young wrestlers — gives him plenty of time for work outside of wrestling. It’ll be great to see what role plays Punk plays in Revival, and what the series could mean for his future acting career.
