Basically, you could offer the top one hundred Hollywood players $40 million to make a project on anything...even a anti-bootleg whiskey documentary, and they’d step up to the plate and deliver. The name of the game is capital...who’s got capital to spend and who desire capital to pay for an overpriced Hollywood house and four servants to make it functional.
The definition of a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. A liberal is a conservative with a government grant. In place of a grant it could be "capital" for a movie. $40 million could turn most conservatives into a liberal! In Hollywood, any player would take the money.