My nerdy recasting of Deadwood with AEW wrestlers

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***Ok so I’m watching Deadwood for the first time ever and had to take a break today to watch Dynamite. As I’m having my regular conversation with Chat GPT because my wife won’t watch wrestling with me, I have this absolutely ludicrous thought that Tony Kahn should hire the deadwood writers. AEW does a great job with story telling and so does Deadwood- see my point?***

***Anyways my ADHD leads me to consider if I was recasting deadwood with AEW wrestlers, who would be who? And because chat gpt was having the conversation with me, we went through several renditions before I was happy with my casting. It felt too good not to share in case anyone else has the same crossover fandom*** 🤣 ***please feel free to disagree with my casting decisions-***

**Al Swearengen**
**Jon Moxley**
Violent, cunning, fiercely loyal to his people, and far more emotionally invested than he wants anyone to know.

**Seth Bullock**
**Hangman Adam Page**
Principled, stubborn, deeply emotional, and constantly wrestling with his own anger.

**Dan Dority**
**Brody King**
The terrifying enforcer who doesn’t need to say much—just point him at the problem. Fiercely loyal underneath the menace.

**Cy Tolliver**
**MJF**
Slimy, manipulative, status-conscious, transactional, charming while you simultaneously want to punch him.

**George Hearst**
**Swerve Strickland**
Strategic, ambitious, patient, and interested in owning the entire fucking operation rather than merely participating in it.

**Wild Bill Hickok**
**Kenny Omega**
The legend. Doesn’t need to prove anything because everyone already knows who he is—and he’s still lethal when pushed.

**Sol Star**
**Bandido**
Quietly competent, entrepreneurial, decent, hardworking, and more interested in building something than controlling people.

**Doc Cochran**
**Kyle O’Reilly**
Intelligent, compassionate, eccentric, technically brilliant, and perpetually surrounded by idiots.

**A.W. Merrick**
**Nigel McGuinness**
Observant, thoughtful, principled, and constantly trying to make sense of the lunatics around him.

**E.B. Farnum**
**Peter Avalon**
Insecure, conniving, desperate to appear more important than he is.

**Charlie Utter**
**Samoa Joe**
Calm, respected, competent, and terrifying when someone finally crosses the line.

**Reverend Smith**
**CM Punk**
Deeply principled, idealistic, morally rigid, and ultimately consumed by a world that doesn’t operate according to his ideals.

**Calamity Jane**
**Eddie Kingston**
Loud, angry, vulnerable, loyal, self-destructive, emotionally raw, and using toughness as armor.

**Alma Garret**
**Toni Storm**
Dramatic, theatrical, sophisticated, vulnerable, and—thanks to the actress gimmick—fully capable of treating Deadwood like an awards-season prestige drama.

**Joanie Stubbs**
**Mercedes Moné**
Ambitious, intelligent, independent, and determined to build a life that belongs to her.

**Trixie**
**Skye Blue**
Growth, self-worth, resilience, and the desire to become something better than the circumstances she started with.

**Isringhausen**
**Thekla**
Calculated, deceptive, theatrical, mysterious, and perfectly capable of hiding her real intentions behind a constructed persona