Conservatives have a golden opportunity to make great films that change culture. Currently we are blowing the opportunity to do so. Let me explain – but getting there requires a brief digression.
In 2023, I killed a movie from a major Hollywood director. The movie, Justice, looks into the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. The director is Doug Liman, who kept its existence a secret for years before premiering it to a sold-out theater surrounded by guards.
So what happened to Justice? Why did the movie never find a distributor? Why has it never been seen?
The brief answer is: I spiked Justice. In November of 2022 I got a text from Doug Liman, the director of Justice. He wanted me to come to New York, right away, like now, to be interviewed for a film he was working on. “I’m an 80s guy like you,” Liman cajoled me.
I knew who Liman was. He is the hugely successful director of the Bourne movies starring Matt Damon. He did a remake of Roadhouse for amazon starring Jake Gyllenhaal. He’s a filmmaker who has worked with Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow and American Made. The latter is the story of Barry Seal, a real-life Louisiana TWA pilot-turned-drug smuggler for the Medellin Cartel who got rich in the 1970s and 1980s before turned DEA informer. American Made is for people who find Oliver Stone too subtle. Liman called the film “a fun lie based on a true story.” […]
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