I’ve had a small glimpse of the corruption and dishonor that infects Hollywood. It started when I got a text from an A-list
Hollywood
producer.
“I just got your book,” he wrote, referring to my recently published
The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs the New American Stasi
.
“I’d like you to come to New York, all expenses paid, so we can meet and talk about a project,” he added.
The Devil’s Triangle tells the story of the extortion, witness tampering, and corruption that were active during Supreme Court Justice
Brett Kavanaugh
’s confirmation. I was dragged into that battle when a woman named Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault as teenagers in the 1980s and claimed that I was in the room when the attack took place. The Stasi media went insane, using
opposition research
,
extortion threats
, and an
attempted honey trap
to get me to accuse Kavanaugh of a wrong he never committed and thus tank his nomination. They charged that I’d presided over 10 gang rapes and bought and sold cocaine. They used as sources people
I’ve never met
.
The Devil’s Triangle would make a great movie. However, since it exposes the lies of the Left, there was little chance Hollywood would be interested in it.
Yet here I was, getting contacted by an A-lister. Then, something weird happened. Mr. Hollywood asked me to sign a nondisclosure agreement, or NDA. I know these things are common in Hollywood. Still, I felt some of the suspicion that guided me through the Kavanaugh nightmare start to rise. An NDA? Also, what was this “project” he had in mind? Usually if someone is interested in buying the rights to your work they will just come right out and say so. This guy was being cagey.
My agent agreed. He is a tough New Yorker who has decades’ worth of experience, including midwifing several film projects from book to screen. I told him what was going on as soon as Mr. Hollywood had contacted me. (It’s dumb to not have your agent involved. It’s what they’re paid for.) My agent wrote a friendly introductory email to the producer, who ignored it and responded directly to me. He asked again when I could come to New York.
This was crazy. You simply do not ignore someone’s agent. It’s like ignoring someone’s lawyer.
I wrote the producer back and told him I would not be coming to
New York
. I was uneasy about how vague he was being. He said he had just gotten my book, so did he want the film rights to it or not?
No reply.
So, I did a little research. The man who contacted me is behind a couple of Tom Cruise films, including American Made, a 2017 film that tells the story of Barry Seal, a real-life Louisiana TWA pilot-turned-drug smuggler for the Medellin cartel who got rich in the 1970s and 1980s before turning into a Drug Enforcement Administration informant. The director of the film, Doug Liman, called it “a fun lie based on a true story.” “We’re not making a biopic,” Liman said at the time, even admitting that during filming, he would dream up on the spot entertaining new situations for Seal: “Wouldn’t it be fun if we did this or funny if we did that?”
A lot of the fun is had at the expense of former President Ronald Reagan. The 40th president appears in archival video footage evading questions about the Contras, as well as sitting by his wife, Nancy, as she tells children to say no to drugs, even as the first couple is made out to ignore or even outright support Seal’s gun and drug running. They’re deliberately portrayed as hypocrites.
This is an outrageous slander based on left-wing conspiracy theories, but it’s also often so over the top that it sometimes slides into slapstick, as if the filmmakers themselves know how ridiculous it all is. The realities of Seal’s life are laid out in the book Smuggler’s End: The Life and Death of Barry Seal by former Marine and FBI agent Del Hahn, who
played a key role in
the FBI’s Baton Rouge operation and now works as as a private investigator. Interviewed by Vice in 2016, Hahn responded, “There is not one iota of credible evidence that Seal ever worked for the CIA or assisted them in any operations. And the CIA denied any connection with Seal.”
Hollywood is expert at making conservatives look wild-eyed, ignorant, and dangerous — while also ignoring or whitewashing the Left’s brutal
history of violence
. There will be several films about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, to be sure, but none about James Hodgkinson, a former
campaign volunteer
for socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who showed up at Republicans’ practice for the annual Congressional Baseball Game and shot Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), a congressional staffer, a lobbyist, and two U.S. Capitol Police officers.
Likewise, Hollywood won’t bother making a film depicting the acts of Nicholas Roske, who came to Washington, D.C., in June to attempt to assassinate Kavanaugh. And if Hollywood ever did do such a project, Roske would be portrayed as an innocent child who got lost one night in Washington. He’d be played by Chris Evans, who also played Captain America. His parents would be played by
Alec Baldwin
and Mia Farrow.
It sounds like there is a movie in the works about me and Kavanaugh, and in publishing The Devil’s Triangle, I caught Hollywood off guard. After all, conservatives aren’t supposed to punch back. I dropped a monkey wrench into another Hollywood “fun lie based on a true story.”
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Mark Judge is an award-winning journalist and the author of the book
The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs. the New American Stasi
. He is also the author of God and Man at Georgetown Prep, Damn Senators, and A Tremor of Bliss.
