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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Founders Films' aims to remake Hollywood with patriotism, Palantir and Ayn Rand
The ScoopAs a conservative political backlash sweeps across US media, some are reaching for the ultimate prize: Hollywood.
Shifting the liberal tilt of the studios and creative culture that shapes Americas image of itself has long been a goal for the right: The late media entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart popularized the notion that politics is downstream from culture, and acolytes from Steve Bannon to Ben Shapiro have sought to inject their politics into the business of movie business, with limited success.
But conservatives have celebrated a few mainstream hits, like the patriotic and Taylor Sheridans nostalgic, libertarian-inflected . And a longstanding Christian culture industry has backed projects like the 2023 film , a dramatization of child trafficking that grossed more than $242 million for Provos Angel Studios. The Christian drama earned $30 million on a $6 million budget last year.
Now a set of prominent figures close to the software firm Palantir are pitching a new project to shake up streaming TV and film with a portfolio ranging from feature films about daring Israeli and American military operations to a three-part treatment of an Ayn Rand tome.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/founders-films-aims-remake-hollywood-002310233.html
There was an attempt at Atlas Shrugged released in 2011. It flopped.
Oh and Ayn Rand was an atheist. But if Peter Thiel wants to dump his money down the shitter he should be encouraged.
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'Founders Films' aims to remake Hollywood with patriotism, Palantir and Ayn Rand (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
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sakabatou
(45,109 posts)1. So... propaganda movies?
marble falls
(67,064 posts)3. All movies are propaganda.
johnnyfins
(2,482 posts)2. All of their movies will SUCK.
No empathy means No art. Sorry.
House of Roberts
(6,131 posts)4. This reads like a bad AI generated article.
Makes very little sense to me.
Ping Tung
(3,094 posts)5. Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions. Arthur Schopenhauer
Torchlight
(5,170 posts)6. And when it fails, they get to scream "Cancel Culture!" and play victim
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