Piper’s nameless character in They Live ... As Entertainment Weekly reported at the time of Piper’s 2015 passing, Carpenter himself credited the wrestler-turned-actor with ad-libbing the ...

Piper — who was known for giving some of the most original interviews in the pro-wrestling business — used it at the behest of Carpenter. In an interview with Nerdist, Carpenter recalled the ...

John Carpenter’s 1988 They Live is set in a dystopian version of Los Angeles where aliens are covertly controlling every aspect of human life. It stars a professional wrestler (Roddy Piper, who ...

Piper was interested in getting into more acting roles, but later admitted he had no idea who Carpenter was before meeting him. “The guy who was managing me at the time, Dave Wolfe, said, ‘I ...

Back in 1988, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper was primarily known as one of the most conniving, sniveling, backstabbing bad guys in all of WWF (now WWE) wrestling. Sure, he had changed allegiances now and ...

John Carpenter, like so many of us alive back then, was a big pro-wrestling fan in the ’80s.Invited to WrestleMania III to see the first of many Rowdy Roddy Piper retirement matches, he got to ...

After his 1978 breakthrough film "Halloween," John Carpenter spent a decade making mostly higher budgeted films like "The Thing," "Starman" and "Big Trouble in Little China." News.

IRVING, Texas — John Carpenter, the legendary filmmaker and self-proclaimed horror master, is in Dallas this week and will be at the Alamo Drafthouse Las Colinas Theater, where they will ...