{"id":40472,"date":"2025-11-10T07:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40472"},"modified":"2025-11-10T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:06:09","slug":"the-iron-claw-written-directed-by-sean-durkin-starring-zac-efron-jeremy-allen-white-harris-dickinson-maura-tierney-stanley-simons-with-holt-mccallany-and-lily-james-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40472","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Iron Claw&#8221; written &amp; directed by Sean Durkin; starring Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Stanley Simons with Holt McCallany and Lily James \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z111025zview_ironclaw.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Iron Claw <\/strong><\/em>(2023)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Sean Durkin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Sean Durkin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Stanley Simons, Lily James, Chavo Guerrero Jr., Garrett Hammond, Cazzey Louis Cereghino, Kevin Anton, Michael Papajohn <\/strong>and <strong>Holt McCallany.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Sons. Brothers. Champions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Von Erich family is known in professional wrestling circles not only for their legendary rise to the top, but also the multiple tragedies they suffered along the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fritz Von Erich, although a successful professional wrestler, never became champion.\u00a0 This left him bitter.\u00a0 Fritz had five sons.\u00a0 One died tragically at an early age.\u00a0 The four others were given a strict upbringing and became professional wrestlers.\u00a0 Fritz pinned his dream of winning a championship on his sons.\u00a0 This brought the boys closer together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A championship was in the family&#8217;s future, but also the tragedies of three more sons dying along the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Iron Claw<\/em> is the true story of the Von Erich family.\u00a0 Some changes were made to timeline of events, which is expected since the film isn&#8217;t a documentary.\u00a0 The family was said to be cursed.\u00a0 There were even more family deaths than appear in the film.<\/p>\n<p>Holt McCallany is excellent as Fritz Von Erich.<\/p>\n<p>I have never seen a part more miscast than that of Aaron Dean Eisenberg as Ric Flair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>The Iron Claw <\/strong><\/em>(2023) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z111025zview_ironclaw2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iron Claw (2023) Director:\u00a0 Sean Durkin Screenplay: Sean Durkin Stars: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,49,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-sports","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40478,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40472\/revisions\/40478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}