With The CW's
Arrow coming to an end soon, star Stephen Amell has set his next small screen project, and it's one that must be very near and dear to his heart.
Heels is an upcoming wrestling drama series which will focus on two brothers who struggle to keep their wrestling promotion afloat after the death of their father. Here's the full synopsis courtesy of
Deadline.
Written by Michael Waldron (Loki), with Mike O’Malley set as showrunner, Heels is about the men and women who chase their dreams in the world of small town pro wrestling. Set in a close-knit Georgia community, it follows a family-owned wrestling promotion as two brothers and rivals — one of them played by Amell — war over their late father’s legacy. In the ring, somebody must play the good guy and somebody must play their nemesis, the heel (Amell). But in the real world, those characters can be hard to live up to — or hard to leave behind.
In the ring, Amell’s Jack Spade is the charismatic villain, or heel, of the Duffy Wrestling Association (DWA). In the real world, he’s its hard-working owner, a husband and father trying to make ends meet while fighting to realize his impossible dreams. He has the mind of an artist in the body of a warrior, and a Steve Jobs-ian need for perfection — and for control. He says he’ll do whatever it takes to build the DWA into an empire. Will he go so far as to risk his marriage, or his relationship with his brother?
The story sounds like it could well be influenced by Amell's friend Cody Rhodes and his brother Dustin (former
WWE Superstar Goldust), and the actor actually Tweeted the former NWA Champion and current AEW star to ask if he wanted to come on board the show.