Nicole Shananan Commissions Movie Script to Lampoon the Establishment's Unhinged Response to Covid, to be Called "The Rash"

I was literally just thinking about this over the weekend.

Every supposed "right wing" scandal gets left-wing movies made about them. And those movies, of course, become the "Real Story" for most of the country, who doesn't read the news.

Left-wing scandals don't get movies made about them. They just get covered up and then forgotten, as the left wants.

I think I actually thought of COVID in thinking about a left-wing scandal someone should make a movie about.

Nicole Shanahan, RFKJr.'s one-time running mate, has a lot of money thanks to her divorce from Google pussy Sergei Brin.

And she thinks the COVID lunacy is the perfect fodder for a satire.

So it won't actually be about covid. At least not in name. It will be about a completely different foreign virus, one that apparently produces "The Rash," that official DC and Hollywood and all left-captured institutions absolutely freak out and melt down over.

Sounds like a movie which needs to be made, about a grotesque and lethal case of Stage IV groupthink and hysteria.

Politico, of course, disagrees.

RFK Jr.'s billionaire running mate is making a comedy about the pandemic

Nicole Shanahan has recruited a top screenwriter and enlisted Covid contrarian Jay Bhattacharya.

"Contrarian"? You mean the guy who was contrarian against the left's COVID lunacy and was proven right on every single claim? You mean the guy who, unlike Anthony Fauci, actually is an epidemiologist and currently serves as head of the NIH?

That "contrarian"? That crank, which is of course what you mean?

Covid contrarians tight with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are pitching Hollywood on an unlikely leading man: National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya.

You mean "Covid truth-tellers and heroes and vindicated True Men of Real Science."

Nicole Shanahan, Kennedy's running mate in the 2024 presidential campaign, is searching for investors to fund a movie that pokes fun at the pandemic response with a star based on Bhattacharya, who rose to prominence with his anti-lockdown manifesto and relentless tweets opposing social distancing.

The script for the satirical comedy, "The Rash," is by renowned author Walter Kirn, who wrote the novel "Up in the Air" that became an Oscar-nominated movie starring George Clooney. The new Kirn screenplay stars a "no-nonsense" public health professor at a Stanford-like California university -- mirroring Bhattacharya -- who speaks out against mass hysteria amid a mysterious outbreak of a contagious skin condition.

The story of the pandemic is one "of great heroes who stood up and said no" to "dangerous scientific experiments mixed with misleading propaganda, mass psychosis, and outright lies," says the Brownstone Institute in a recent appeal sent to potential funders of the film.

The think tank that once counted Bhattacharya as a senior scholar added that "investors are terrified of the topic and Hollywood elites don't even want it made."

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Since 2020, a number of figures in Trump's orbit have been involved in the creation and promotion of films criticizing public officials' response to the pandemic or pushing fringe theories about it or vaccines.

Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone's founder and president, didn't respond to requests for comment. In October 2020, he convened a group of scientists, including Bhattacharya, who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration opposing Covid lockdowns. It set off a vigorous debate about the pandemic response and prompted Bhattacharya's predecessor at NIH, Francis Collins, to call him a "fringe epidemiologist."

Bhattacharya, whom Kennedy also named acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, is on board with the movie, an NIH spokesperson told POLITICO.

"Dr. Bhattacharya has spoken positively about the work Walter Kirn is doing, noting that the project reflects a strong commitment to free speech and open inquiry, and he welcomes thoughtful creative efforts that engage with these issues," the spokesperson said.

Of course, the left-wing network of basket-case lefties who usually fund movies have no interest in funding a sure-fire 10x budget hit.

Funding for "The Rash" nonetheless remains an obstacle. The estimated production budget is close to $6 million, according to a slide deck on Brownstone's website.

Brownstone "is well-positioned to be a fiscal sponsor of this effort," and the project "already has a top production company lined up along with some notable talent to make a first-rate film," the website says.

Six million? The thing will probably make $300 million.

I guess this is a Hollywood attempt at a covid exploitation movie.

Looks maybe interesting but I really want to see Fauci and his cultists lampooned.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM

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