Posted on 06/23/2020 8:20:53 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The director of the cable movie version of fired FBI chief James Comey’s book “A Higher Loyalty” flipped his lid after learning that the flick would air after the November election — and now ViacomCBS says it will reconsider the decision and move up the air date.
Both Comey and the director, Billy Ray, said they were disappointed in the earlier decision to delay the flick, called “The Comey Rule,” the New York Times reported Tuesday.
“I don’t understand why CBS would sit on a movie about important current events, and I hope the American people get the chance to see it soon,” Comey said in a statement.
In an email to cast members Monday, Ray also lamented the decision, according to a copy obtained by Deadline.
“I know what a disappointment this is to you. It is for me too — because while I’ve made movies about my country before, this was the first time I ever made a movie for my country. We all were hoping to get this story in front of the American people months before the coming election. And that was a reasonable expectation considering that we’d been given a mandate by the network to do whatever was necessary to deliver by May 15,” Ray wrote.
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It will influence a very, very small number of people.
Didn’t Billy Ray have something to do with Eastwood’s movie about Richard Jewell?
Comey is loyal to the Democrat Party rather than to the USA
Thatbis hardly “higher”
Comey, a documentary. How a lying, suck up, unethical pus*ey can become the head of the FBI.
Yes he wrote the movie.
I was surprised that movie (Richard Jewell) wasn’t a bigger hit. Maybe the news is just too outdated and arcane for the average person to connect with it.
It made 43.7 Million, which is nice, but it also cost $43. Million to produce. Still an impressive accomplishment for a 90 something film director.
Sure, it will ‘influence’ only people who would already vote for democrats, and that’s about it.
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