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David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler. Regarded as one of his generation's most prolific professional wrestlers, he rose to fame for his multiple stints in WWE between 2002 and 2019. Bautista began his wrestling career in 1999 and signed with WWE (then WWF) in 2000. From 2002 to 2010, he gained fame under the ring name Batista, initially as a member of Evolution. He would go on to win the WWE Championship twice, the World Heavyweight Championship four times (with his first reign remaining the longest in history at 282 days), the World Tag Team Championship three times (twice with Ric Flair and once with John Cena), and the WWE Tag Team Championship once (with Rey Mysterio). He also won the 2005 and 2014 Royal Rumble matches and subsequently headlined WrestleMania 21 and WrestleMania XXX, with the former being one of the top five highest-grossing PPV events in wrestling history. Having largely stepped back from professional wrestling in 2020, he retired after WrestleMania 35 in 2019. As an actor, Bautista is known for portraying Drax in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2014–2023) and Rabban in Dune (2021) and its 2024 sequel. Bautista has additionally starred in Spectre (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Final Score, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (both 2018), Army of the Dead (2021), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), Knock at the Cabin, and Parachute (both 2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dave Bautista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Dave Bautista
Judge Holden
for Judge Holden in BLOOD MERIDIAN (2027)
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Set in the mid-19th century American Southwest, Blood Meridian follows a nameless young man known only as The Kid, who, after fleeing a violent childhood, joins a brutal group of Indian-hunters led by Captain Glanton. The gang, operating on the fringes of the law, hunts Apache warriors for bounties, committing unspeakable acts of violence across the borderlands. At the heart of the story is Judge Holden, a larger-than-life figure who is both charismatic and terrifying. The Judge, a philosopher of chaos, believes that war is the natural state of man, and he exerts a powerful influence over the Kid and the other members of the gang. As the Kid becomes more entangled in the Glanton gang’s reign of terror, he is drawn into a moral conflict, struggling to retain his humanity in the face of overwhelming violence. As the gang spirals deeper into depravity, the Kid's fate becomes intertwined with the Judge's, leading to a harrowing confrontation that blurs the line between good and evil. In this brutal and haunting tale, survival is both a physical and existential battle, where the only constant is bloodshed.
