End Of The Bloodline Already Changed Multiple Times By WWE

Roman Reigns and The Bloodline have been at the top of WWE for the past four years, whether that be in the original incarnation of Roman Reigns, The Usos and Paul Heyman, the popular 2022 version with Reigns, The Usos, Heyman, Solo Sikoa, and Sami Zayn, or the current iteration of Roman Reigns, Solo Sikoa, Jimmy Uso, Paul Heyman, and The Rock. 

The whole Bloodline storyline was originally mapped out in 2020 and Paul Heyman revealed to The Ringer that the ending has been rewritten on multiple occasions. 

"I'm a huge proponent of writing the last page of the script first. It's always to the advantage of long-term storytelling. I don't think it was ever done better, ever, than the Brian De Palma–directed movie Carlito's Way, because the very first frame of the movie tells you the ending. The first scene in that movie is the end of the movie. Then you're taken on a ride with these characters that are so layered. The audience is truly emotionally invested in them to such a degree that when you know the movie is coming to the conclusion, you have forgotten what the ending is, and you're rooting for Carlito, even though you were just told less than two hours ago he's going to die on that train platform at the hands of this person in front of his soon-to-be bride. The magnificence of that storytelling is, to this day, so dramatically underappreciated. I've always been of the belief that the launch of the story is the first push toward the conclusion. The finish is everything," Heyman stated.

"All that being said, I think I would suggest the ending of this story has already been rewritten multiple times because the world has changed since the inception of the Bloodline story. And therefore, what was a clear vision of how this should play out almost four years ago changed along the way based on not only the audience's investment in the characters and the stories, but the world itself - society itself, pop culture itself, sports culture itself has all changed. And now we can see the trajectory that we've been on takes us so much further than we ever initially imagined."

Of course, when The Bloodline storyline began, Cody Rhodes was still a part of All Elite Wrestling and one of the promotion's EVPs. This Sunday, however, he is set to challenge Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship in the main event of WrestleMania 40 night two.