Jeff Katz is an American film producer and comic book author, best known for genre movies such as The Pope's Exorcist, Snakes On A Plane and Freddy vs.
It was in this role that he would first catch the eye of World Championship Wrestling executives Eric Bischoff and Zane Bresloff, who would eventually hire Katz for WCW.
[2][4][5][3] While serving as a studio executive at New Line, during the production of Blade: Trinity, he thought Ryan Reynolds was the only actor suitable for the role of Deadpool and championed the idea with the support of Marvel's Avi Arad and Kevin Feige.
He most recently produced The Pope's Exorcist starring Russell Crowe and based on the life of Father Gabriele Amorth for Sony Pictures and Screen Gems, for which he also received a story credit.
Katz began his career in sports entertainment at World Championship Wrestling in 1996, when he was hired by Eric Bischoff at the age of 17.
Other names involved with the production include MVP, Chris Hero, Karl Anderson, Colt Cabana, Luke Gallows, Amazing Red, Timothy Thatcher, Brian Cage, L. A. Knight, Shawn Daivari, Emil Sitoci, Sami Callihan, Alex Reynolds, Adam Pearce, Joey Ryan, Pat Buck, "Psycho" Mike Rollins and more.
Katz returned to play-by-play for the first time since WCW for the tapings, being joined by Nigel McGuinness (as "Vyvyan Edmondson") on color commentary.
WRP was never released in the promised episodic format, but the filmed footage was uploaded to YouTube by Katz in March 2020, followed shortly thereafter by audio commentaries, behind the scenes footage and additional filmed materials from WRP's sister series The Underground starring The Young Bucks for AwesomenessTV.
[10] Katz would ultimately return to wrestling during promotion of The Pope's Exorcist, putting together a partnership with WWE at WrestleMania, including the sponsorship of the Hell In A Cell match between Edge (wrestler) and Finn Balor.