The filmmakers’ statement is below but, unfortunately (and incredibly), it doesn’t address the film’s release date, which is set for October 12th, 2012 –just a few weeks prior to the November 6th presidential election. This is THE elephant in the room and the likely reason no one involved with the film will address it is due to the fact that there’s no logical reason reason to release the film on that date unless you want to give Barack Obama a pre-election boost — a $50 to $75 million dollar in-kind political contribution.
Bigelow and Boal
If Sony Pictures and the filmmakers want to take the partisan stink off of this thing, then they need to move the release date to late December. Obviously everyone involved is eyeing Oscar season, which is fair enough. But Oscar season lasts straight through Christmas.
[T]he filmmakers have said that have had help from not only the Obama adminstration but also the Bush and Clinton adminstration and have released a statement on the current scrutiny the film has under gone. The film is directed by Bigelow and is written by Mark Boal, the same team that made the Oscar-winning “The Hurt Locker.”“Our upcoming film project about the decade long pursuit of Bin Laden has been in the works for many years and integrates the collective efforts of three administrations, including those of Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, as well as the cooperative strategies and implementation by the Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency. Indeed, the dangerous work of finding the world’s most wanted man was carried out by individuals in the military and intelligence communities who put their lives at risk for the greater good without regard for political affiliation. This was an American triumph, both heroic, and non-partisan and there is no basis to suggest that our film will represent this enormous victory otherwise.”
What we all know, and this includes Obama’s friends involved in the film, is that what this release date is designed to ensure is that right in the heart of the crucial last few weeks of Obama’s reelection bid, the ONLY bright spot in Obama’s failed presidency, will intentionally become the focal point of the news narrative. The whole of the left-wing media will use the film’s public relations push to swamp everything else out.
Maureen Dowd got this exactly right:
The White House is also counting on the Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal big-screen version of the killing of Bin Laden to counter Obama’s growing reputation as ineffectual. The Sony film by the Oscar-winning pair who made “The Hurt Locker” will no doubt reflect the president’s cool, gutsy decision against shaky odds. Just as Obamaland was hoping, the movie is scheduled to open on Oct. 12, 2012 — perfectly timed to give a home-stretch boost to a campaign that has grown tougher.The moviemakers are getting top-level access to the most classified mission in history from an administration that has tried to throw more people in jail for leaking classified information than the Bush administration.
It was clear that the White House had outsourced the job of manning up the president’s image to Hollywood when Boal got welcomed to the upper echelons of the White House and the Pentagon and showed up recently — to the surprise of some military officers — at a C.I.A. ceremony celebrating the hero Seals.
And the worst part is that the courage and sacrifice of the men and women who helped to bring down bin Laden is being intentionally and cynically exploited for partisan political purposes.
America and the people who protect her have waited ten years for a film about this war that takes our side and now that we might finally get one, it comes in the form of a Left-wing campaign commercial.
If the release date isn’t political, they why did the filmmakers’ statement COMPLETELY IGNORE it?
Why won’t they address it?
Why won’t Sony explain it?
We all know the answer to that question.
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