That's because of a twisty backstory involving gun-shy Hollywood studios, a fledgling producer, and his father-in-law: Dan Snyder, a billionaire Trump supporter who initially bankrolled the movie.
Related storiesYou got a Trump supporter to fund this movie, which in no way is a movie a Trump supporter would want to see, let alone fund.
And so indirectly, a Republican Trump donor's money was paying for the production of this movie.
The nightmare scenario would be that we shoot this movie and then Dan Snyder hates the movie and somehow is able to block it.
AdvertisementThis will sound pretty cavalier from me, but: It seems like if there's an "unseeable Trump movie" that is going to immediately make people demand to see it.
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Trump, Service, Marvel, Hollywood, Fox News, YouTube, Republican, Washington NFL, NFL, Republican Trump, Cannes, Telluride Film, MGM, Washington Post, FCC, Justice Department, Time Warner, CNN, Time, DOJ
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New York City, Cannes, French, France, America, Hollywood