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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.
Taking place in Edge City, Stanley Ipkiss is a lonely, emotionally damaged man living in the shadows of a city that has forgotten him. Once an aspiring artist with dreams of becoming somebody important, Stanley now works a meaningless office job, struggles with isolation, and feels invisible to everyone around him. His only escape is creating imaginary versions of himself confident, charismatic, fearless versions of the man he wishes he could be. One night, while investigating an abandoned underground area beneath the city, Stanley discovers an ancient wooden mask hidden away for decades. Legends say the mask belonged to a forgotten trickster spirit, an object that does not grant wishes — it reveals the person hiding underneath. When Stanley puts on the mask, he becomes something completely different. A violent, theatrical, and terrifying persona emerges: “The Big Head.” At first, Stanley believes the Mask has finally given him everything he lacked — confidence, power, attention, and freedom. The world that ignored him suddenly fears him. Criminals, corrupt businessmen, and people who humiliated him become targets of his revenge. But the transformation begins to change more than his personality. His body starts to physically adapt to the Mask. His smile becomes unnatural. His movements become exaggerated. His reflection begins moving differently from him. The line between Stanley and the Big Head begins disappearing. The Mask is not a costume. It is an infection.
