Conservative Movie Road Kill

Center-right political movies are not getting produced, … but that is not for the lack of willing talent ABC mini-series “The Path to 911 writer”, Cyrus Nowrasteh, participated in a panel at the Liberty Film Festival titled "Rebels With a Cause: How Conservatives Can Lead Hollywood's Next Paradigm Shift". That was three years ago. Since then, Cyrus Nowrasteh found that no comrade would fund such a film. Modestly budgeted conservative features, like our feature film project “Amnesia Jam”, have yet to find financial backers. These include talented filmmakers like, Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Avrech who wrote "Body Double", novelist/screenwriter Andrew Klavan who wrote Clint Eastwood's "True Crime" and actor Robert Davi of "Profiler". Founding Heads of the Liberty Film Festival, Jason Apuzzo and Govindini Murty, produced “Terminal Island” a well-crafted feature length anti-terrorism, anti-liberalism movie. They proved that they could produce a compelling conservative political movie with very limited financial resources. Their own. So did they find backers for another film? Oscar winner Jon Voight also saw his effort fold due to lack of funds. Even superstar Bruce Willis failed to get funding for his film made about the famed "Deuce Four" battalion serving in Iraq. Most promising is the production of Ayn Rand's masterpiece, her unique capitalist manifesto “Atlas Shrugged”. Oscar winning superstar, Angelina Jolie, signed on a couple of years ago, Lionsgate strives to shoot it in 2008 and release it in 2009. Conservative political movies aren't getting made, but that is not for the lack of willing talent. Whether the various conservative leaders are culture-vultures, Silicone Valley giants, real estate moguls or financiers, all megabuck conservatives have two things in common ... they complain about liberal Hollywood and they have yet to invest a dime in a conservative political movie. Finally, Oscar winner Mel Gibson was up against this. With his project, the fortunetellers in the Hollywood trade papers were chanting in unison: “Gibson's movie will flop. Gibson's movie will flop ... ” True to form, prospective conservative funders took Hollywood's “warnings” at face value and sent Mel packing. So he stormed off and funded it himself! Turns out, Mel Gibson's thirty million dollar investment in "The Passion of the Christ" returned to him about twenty times that amount. He's fine.