Conservatives are Blowing a Golden Hollywood Opportunity

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    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.”

    Why was Liman so interested in me?  I played a role in the battle of 2018, when a woman named Christine Blasey Ford said that in 1982 I was in the room when she was assaulted by a teenaged Brett Kavanaugh. Ford famously could not remember the time or place of the alleged incident, and her claim was rebuked by people Ford said had been at the party. I wrote a book about my experience – The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs the New American Stasi. My thesis is that the media, opposition researchers and Hollywood form a new American Stasi, similar to the old East German secret police. They use extortion, intimidation and threats to destroy the lives of others, ignoring any facts or evidence that points away from their narrative. 

    Doug Liman and his production company did not anticipate The Devil’s Triangle. When it was published in November 2022, they were deep into research and shooting Justice. The book is full of facts the left and Hollywood do not want exposedI reveal extortion attempts, death threats and a honey trap. It’s especially relevant in light of the media and governmental corruption being found under Elon Musk and President Trump. Yet for the biased filmmakers, I was in their blind spot. When the book was published, they tried to get me to New York, “all expenses paid,” and gaslight me. It reminded me of when Ronan Farrow called me in September 2018 to tell me that I was in a letter accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, but Farrow could not say who the accuser was, or where it allegedly happened – only that it had taken place “in the 1980s.” 

    Liman and his associate Amy Herdy – who has been criticized for omitting key facts from previous documentaries – have talked about the “bravery” of the people who spoke to them for Justice, implying that there was a campaign in 2018 to keep people quiet. In my experience the campaign was to get people to lie. As Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said after seeing the FBI report, “Anybody who thinks this is a search for the truth and not about politics ought to put down the bong.” Michael Avenatti, who charged that me and Brett presided over ten high school parties where girls were drugged and gang raped, is now serving time in prison for extortion.

    Justice does not include an interview with Christine Blasey Ford. To do so would be to open the door to questions about Leland Keyser. Keyser is Ford’s lifelong friend who was allegedly at the party where the assault took place. In 2019 Keyser revealed to Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, two reporters for the New York Times, that she did not believe Ford’s story. Further, Keyser said she felt threatened to change her story. “We spoke multiple times to Keyser, who also said that she didn’t recall that get-together or any others like it,” Pogrebin and Kelly reported in their book The Education of Brett Kavanaugh.“In fact, she challenged Ford’s accuracy. ‘I don’t have any confidence in the story.’” 

    Also not in Justice is the fact that Blasey Ford’s father apologized to Brett’s father.

    In 2022 I laid out all of these facts to Liman and his producers.They realized they pinch they were in. There was no way they could make this movie without me and my book, and yet The Devil’s Triangle destroyed the premise of their movie.They were done. That’s why Justice will never be seen.

    Here is where an opportunity for conservatives is obvious. Why not make a film of The Devil’s Triangle? It has everything – sex, politics, courtroom drama, even skateboarding, Jesuits, and 1980s flashbacks. You could do it for $10 million – not a huge budget by Hollywood standards. Me and a couple other writers have even crafted a 20-page treatment outlining how we see the movie.

    Over the past 50 years Hollywood has achieved cultural dominance by making great films, many of them, socially in the 1970s, featuring okayed protagonists or anti-heroes struggling in a world where Byzantine and evil forces are against them. That evil is now being exposed as not a conservative plot, but as a liberal one. Elon Musk and DOGE are revealing the deep corruption on the left. It funnels billions of tax dollars to socialist causes and exists to destroy the lives of people like me. It wasn’t enough that I shut down the movie Justice. Conservatives need to make our own movies about episodes like the one I endured. We have power now – it’s time to create, not just go to college campuses and “own” sophomores.

    We have a great property in The Devil’s Triangle. Like the best stories, it features a flawed protagonist. We have a treatment. We have great actors and directors interested. The time to complain about Hollywood is over. The time to make our own great movie is now.

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