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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/09/steve-bannon-wanted-mel-gibson-for-his-movie-about-nazis-abortion-mutants.htmlRESISTANCE IS FUTILE
Steve Bannon Wanted Mel Gibson for His Movie About Nazis, Abortion, Mutants
In 11 pages, the cautionary tale about arrogant scientists tampering with divine design covers Eden, Hitler, mutants, immortality, and the most radical ideology in history.
Asawin Suebsaeng
02.09.17 1:15 AM ET
More than a decade before Stephen K. Bannon became one of President Donald Trumps closest White House aides, he tried to make an epic documentary-style film about the eugenics movement, Adolf Hitler, blood purity, abortion, contraception, Darwinism, mutants, and cloning. According to his longtime Hollywood writing partner, Bannon even met with controversial Oscar winner Mel Gibson in his effort to get the picture made.
The 11-page outline for Bannons unmade movie, a copy of which was reviewed by The Daily Beast, was written in the spring of 2005 and bears the ominous title The Singularity: Resistance Is Futile. (The projects alternate working title: The Harvest of the Damned.)
The document, which credits Bannon as a writer, producer, and director, divides the movie into 22 segments spread across four sections. A heady, incomplete mix of science, history, religion, and politics, it sketches out a story in which mankinds unquenchable thirst for knowledge and scientific advancement has led to horrific, fascist atrocities and forced sterilization, drawing a direct line between those atrocities and modern bio-technology.
Essentially, Bannons is a Christian right-friendly story of arrogant scientists trying to perfect the human race at the expense of the natural order and Gods vision of humanity.
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Before Bannon headed Breitbart and then became one of the most powerful people in the world via the Trump administration, he operated in the Democratic bastion of liberal Hollywood as a right-wing filmmaker influenced by the filmmaking of Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Some of his projects became films, others did not.
Last week, The Washington Post published excerpts from his draft for a movie that warned about how Muslim extremists could try to turn the U.S. into the Islamic States of America. The document also blamed the American Jewish Community as being one of the enablers of this supposed threat.
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Steve Bannon Wanted Mel Gibson for His Movie About Nazis, Abortion, Mutants (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2017
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no_hypocrisy
(46,103 posts)1. Typecasting
Initech
(100,075 posts)2. When you're too crazy for Mel Gibson...
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)3. That was my 1st thought