Reelz aims pro-Sarah Palin film against HBO's 'Game Change'

L.A. Times ^ | 2/22/12 | -Scott Collins

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Next month's battle of the Sarah Palins on cable TV could be flippin' awesome.

The director of a pro-Palin documentary has come out swinging against HBO's upcoming dramatization of the 2008 presidential campaign, "Game Change." And on Tuesday, the scrappy Reelz network announced that his film on the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate, "The Undefeated," will premiere March 11 -- strategically placed just one day after "Game Change."

That's not all. Steve Bannon, writer-director of "The Undefeated," accuses HBO of a grand conspiracy to undermine Palin's political career.

The pay-cable network, he said in a phone interview Tuesday, deliberately scheduled the movie starring Julianne Moore to destroy Palin's prospects just days after the Super Tuesday primaries.

"When they made this film, they thought Sarah Palin was going to be in the race," said Bannon, who has not seen HBO's "Game Change." Palin announced last October she would not run for president in 2012.

Bannon -- described by one critic as the "Michael Moore of the tea party movement" -- said Reelz chose to run his documentary "as a kind of counterweight to the HBO film."

HBO representatives did not respond to an email seeking comment.

"The Undefeated" tells the story of Palin's rise from 1989, when she worked on a fishing boat, to the governor's mansion and beyond. Andrew Breitbart and other conservative pundits have their say, although Bannon chose not to interview Palin herself, on the grounds that her reflections would take the viewer away from the "whirlwind of Sarah Palin" that he attempts to recreate. Some critics have already attacked the movie -- which has seen a limited release in theaters and on pay-per-view -- for factual omissions. Bannon's reply: "In two hours, there's only so much ground you can cover."

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The Undefeated is also available on instant streaming through Netflix.