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Over the weekend, a trailer for a blatantly right-wing biopic about president Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, made the rounds. It appears every kind of bonkers. Also, it’s directed by a voice actor from Bungie’s Halo trilogy. Hey, let’s all give it up for the gaming angle!
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The movie, titled My Son Hunter, has been threatened since late final yr. It’s being dropped at us by manufacturing firm The Unreported Society, which “strives to broadcast truth that the media tries to cover up.” (Former initiatives together with ObamaGate the Movie and a podcast concerning the Harvey Weinstein trial.) My Son Hunter stars London mayoral hopeful (1.9% of the vote) Laurence Fox within the titular function, with ‘80s soap star John James playing Joe Biden. Actor and former MMA fighter Gina Carano also appears in a role that’s billed as “Secret Service Agent” however actually simply seems to be a kind of fourth-wall-breaking narrator roles. It’s being distributed by Breitbart, the far-right commentary web site.
Narratively, My Son Hunter will, to borrow The Unreported Society’s logline, “tell the story of the Biden Family Corruption through the eyes of Hunter Biden” (capitalization unchanged). Footage within the trailer appears to painting the cacophony of incongruous, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden and Ukraine. It’s like a right-wing echo chamber come to life as dramatically color-balanced cinematography. You’ve gotta see it to imagine it:
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In the director’s chair is Robert Davi, an actor who connoisseurs of ‘80s and ‘90s cinema will know as a familiar face who appeared in everything from The Goonies to Die Hard, and made perhaps his most notable appearance as the villain in the 1990 James Bond film Licence to Kill. But you may also recognize him as the voice behind ‘Rtas Vadum, the Covenant shipmaster from Halo 2 and Halo 3. A key ally of the Arbiter, Vadum spearheads the Elites’ defection from the Prophets in an effort to again humanity on the hunt of “making it so all sentient life in the galaxy isn’t eliminated in an instant.” Vadum additionally will get the trilogy’s “then it is an even fight” line, which was, again then, a requisite for all motion collection.
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Carano, after all, appeared in The Mandalorian as a bounty hunter reverse Pedro Pascal’s main character. Over the previous few years, she repeatedly used her social media accounts to hawk harmful right-wing speaking factors (transphobia, covid denialism, some hints of anti-Semitism). Last February, each Lucasfilm and Carano’s company dropped her.
“The script [for My Son Hunter] was instantly intriguing and side-achingly hilarious to me, especially after being newly exposed to the political realm in 2020,” Carano advised Deadline. “Robert Davi is someone who reached out to me as soon as I was ‘canceled’ in February 2021.”
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My Son Hunter seems to have had the alternative of its meant impact, with commenters throughout social media platforms noting how rattling cool the trailer makes Hunter Biden look. It additionally completely tarnished one of many coolest characters from my favourite recreation. Tsk tsk, thanks Obama.