Posted on 01/22/2022 9:01:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Hollywood loves giving us entertainment we never asked for, like reboots of reboots of Ghostbusters, a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air drama, and 12 million seasons of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Now, in the grand tradition of continuing to make everything but what American consumers want to see, Hollywood will be giving us a movie about the events at the Capitol on January 6th.
Because of course they are.
Given the names attached, one can already imagine the absurdity of what this movie might entail. Billy Ray will direct. You’ll know him from his most recent directorial project that you most certainly did not watch, along with most of America outside Hollywood and a few New York City boroughs, The Comey Rule. Ray told Deadline he wants take a “ground-level” look at the events.
“The goal was to do a ground-level view of a momentous day,” said Ray. “It’s about protesters who became rioters and cops who became defenders of democracy. Someone else can tell the story of the chaos at the White House on that day. I wanted to stay in the trenches.”
Ray will be joined by producer Adam McKay, who’s most recent project Don’t Look Up, a metaphorical movie about the perils of climate change deniers, has achieved about the same level of success as Ray’s last project – hailed by the critics, panned by the audiences.
Ray, who initially developed a J6 project at Showtime as a five-episode limited series, went back to the drawing board. He turned 300 pages of scripted material into a 120-page feature script and created something entirely new.
“Billy has written a screenplay that is not only harrowing and terrifying but is sure to become the definitive cinematic document on that gut-wrenching day,” McKay said.
We’ll all be waiting on pins and needles to not watch this “definitive cinematic document”, but if you’d like to watch an actual cinematic document from someone who was actually there that day, check out actor/director Nick Searcy’s documentary on the riots and the ensuing arrests, Capitol Punishment. Our own reporter, Jennifer Oliver O’Connell had the privilege of interviewing Searcy about the film.
Hmm. Now that you mention it, I wonder if they’ll put in an AOC “dream sequence.”
It would be great if Revolver News wrote the screenplay.
Bears repeating. 😀
bkmk
In wide release? September 2022? Or hold it in reserve until September 2024?
It will fail at the box office (of course) but at least the actors and crew will get a couple months of pay checks. Any port in a storm, as they say.
For the scene where Babbitt is shot...will they have the Baldwin’s team to handle the weapons for the filming sequence?
Oh great. Complete the brainwashing for the types who need it in storybook format.
The Hollywood version will look the Battle of the Bulge took place. Trump supporters showing at the Capitol in Bradleys with assault rifles, battling 10 divisions of National Guard troops.
Most Americans believe that All the President’s Men was a historical account - no political slant at all.
If it wasn’t in the movie - it didn’t happen.
People took the TV series "Roots" to be pure history as well.
It is known.
Well, this ought to be ghastly....
It’s their way of preempting a war on misinformation, which is no way at all. Whatever it is they’re selling, it’s not just for entertainment purposes, and that would be about the only thing that’s safe for consumers to assume.
Working title- FEVER DREAM
The Ministry of Truth-Hollywood division.
Will kids be forced to watch it in skool?
Hollywood has been giving us a lot of movies that I haven’t and won’t be watching - this will just be another.
Yep, if you want fiction, go to Hollywood.
Republicans should have their own hearings on Jan 6 committee.
Galaxy Quest - great movie, and historically accurate. :-)
We have been watching a Netflix series called Ozark - it’s great entertainment, but every time they allude to politics, there are obligatory brainwashing and digs at the Right, and nothing but praise heaped on any Democrat - although they are careful not to mention the parties by name.
In the episode we watched last night, there is this powerful Senator of an unnamed party, who is described as “a fetus-loving, woman hating monster.”
So, that establishes for the audience that he is a powerful Republican. Never mind the fact that the writers assume that the entire audience will share there contempt for fetuses.
Then it turns out the Senator is covering up a widespread scheme to use a proprietary vote-counting software that can’t be audited from the outside, and has an algorithm capable of flipping elections - it sounds exactly like Dominion, except since it’s a Republican perp, it is not dismissed as “conspiracy theory”.
So they manage to take Democrat corruption and pin it on Republicans.
It doesn’t ever surprise me when they do this in show business - but it is a bit terrifying how pervasive and relentless it is.
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