A big-name Hollywood fundraiser for Barack Obama is releasing
the first feature film about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden two days
before the US presidential election.
Osama Bin Laden
“SEAL Team Six:
The Raid on Osama bin Laden” is distributed by Harvey Weinstein, the respected
movie mogul who hosted the president at a celebrity-studded fundraising event
in New England last month.
In a press
release, the National Geographic Channel said it would premiere “SEAL Team Six”
on November 4 after its president Howard Owens and Weinstein discussed “the
insight the film is sure to evoke in all Americans.”
The film —
directed by John Stockwell and produced for theatrical release by Nicholas
Chartier, who produced the Oscar-winning war film “The Hurt Locker” — will then
go onto Netflix movie screening website.
In a trailer
posted online Friday, characters are heard saying “We’re going to be the team
that takes out Osama” and “the president of the United States is going to be
staking his presidency on this call.”
Obama personally
gave the green light for US Navy SEAL commandos to target Bin Laden’s hideout
in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 in a daring night-time raid that killed the Al Qaeda
leader responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
“This portrayal
of the events that took place that night is moving, to say the very least,”
said Weinstein in the National Geographic Channel press release.
“I anticipate
audiences will be as captivated as I was from the beginning to the end,” he
added.
“And I’m
extremely proud as an American citizen to play a role in making sure this
stunning portrayal over very recent American history is available in as many
homes as possible.”
Opinion polls had
put Obama, gunning for a second White House term, ahead of Mitt Romney prior to
a televised debate Wednesday in which Romney came out the victor in the eyes of
most political analysts.
Weinstein,
executive producer of films as diverse as “The English Patient,” “The Artist”
and the most recent “Rambo” movie in a filmmaking career dating back to the
1970s, is a well-known supporter of the Democratic party.
His exclusive
Obama fundraiser in August at his seaside compound in Westport, Connecticut was
attended by about 50 people, the Hollywood Reporter trade journal reported.
Tickets cost $38,5000 each.
Culled from Vanguard
No comments:
Post a Comment