Age: 57
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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
The Seven Churches (composite)
for The Seven Churches (composite) in Revelation: The Final Vision
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The last book of the Bible. The most visually extraordinary. The most contested. The most necessary. A faithful, visually ambitious adaptation of the Revelation to John — approached as what the text presents itself as: the apocalyptic vision of John of Patmos, written to seven specific churches in Asia Minor under Roman persecution, using the specific visual language of Jewish apocalyptic literature to communicate hope to a persecuted community. The series takes the Revelation seriously as both historical document and prophetic vision — grounding it in the specific historical context of Domitian's Rome while honoring its eschatological scope. Structured in two seasons following the text's own structure: Season 1 covers the letters to the seven churches, the throne room vision, the seals, and the trumpets. Season 2 covers the woman and the dragon, the beast, the bowls of wrath, Babylon's fall, the final battle, and the New Jerusalem. The visual language draws from ancient Near Eastern imagery, Roman imperial iconography, and the specific visual metaphors of Jewish apocalyptic — rendered with the conviction that these images were chosen for their specific meaning and deserve to be taken seriously. Season 1 — The Vision Begins Patmos. The throne room. The letters to the seven churches. The scroll with seven seals. The four living creatures. The martyrs under the altar. Season 2 — The End and the Beginning The woman clothed with the sun. The beast. Babylon's fall. The rider on the white horse. The thousand years. The new heaven and new earth. The New Jerusalem descending. 'Come, Lord Jesus.'
