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Why Putin's Henchmen Are Dying for the Debut of "My Son Hunter"
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Why Putin’s Henchmen Are Dying for the Debut of “My Son Hunter”
Russian state TV host said, “We’re waiting for the premiere and hoping for a big success in the United States, to bring our beloved Trump back into power.”
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Why Putin’s Henchmen Are Dying for This American Movie to Debut
Kremlin TV is promoting this film so aggressively you’d think Vladimir Putin himself had a hand in making it.
1:43 PM · Aug 29, 2022
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Why Putin’s Henchmen Are Dying for the Debut of “My Son Hunter”
Russian state TV host said, “We’re waiting for the premiere and hoping for a big success in the United States, to bring our beloved Trump back into power.”
thedailybeast.com
Why Putin’s Henchmen Are Dying for This American Movie to Debut
Kremlin TV is promoting this film so aggressively you’d think Vladimir Putin himself had a hand in making it.
1:43 PM · Aug 29, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-media-cant-stop-promoting-new-breitbart-movie-my-son-hunter
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Russia is facing hard times—both on the battlefield and the home front—and the country’s leading propagandists are laser-focused on distracting the domestic population by demonstrating that things are even worse abroad. Besides showcasing clips from Tucker Carlson of Fox News and social media posts by former U.S. President Donald Trump and his son, Don Jr., Kremlin-controlled propagandists have seized on another piece of convenient agitprop: a soon-to-be-released Breitbart-produced film, “My Son Hunter.”
State media propagandists are hard at work promoting the flick, which is set to premiere on Sept. 7 and apparently centers on various conspiracy theories about U.S. President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
A promotional trailer for “My Son Hunter” has been broadcast in its entirety on numerous Russian state television programs. “Sex, drugs, the notebook from hell and selling off America, the authors of the new film about Biden Jr. promised to show all of this to the audiences,” host of state TV show Vesti at 20:00, Ernest Mackevičius, announced in his introduction of the trailer on the Rossiya-1 channel this week. The seven-minute segment included the promo in its entirety, along with clips of Tucker Carlson and Senator Ron Johnson, blaming the FBI for “interfering in elections” by not investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Russia routinely boasts of its moral purity as compared to the ‘decadent, decaying’ West, but Kremlin-controlled state television dropped all pretense while promoting the movie. Abandoning their usual stringent standards with respect to nudity and sexual content, the state TV show didn’t shy away from repeatedly airing oodles of illicit clips starring the president’s son.
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This world is really full of sick people.
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Gina Carano, since ousted from Star Wars land, will star in My Son Hunter
https://kotaku.com/my-son-hunter-biden-gina-carano-robert-davi-halo-3-1849468462
Over the weekend, a trailer for a blatantly right-wing biopic about president Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, made the rounds. It looks all kinds of bonkers. Also, it’s directed by a voice actor from Bungie’s Halo trilogy. Hey, let’s all give it up for the gaming angle!
The film, titled My Son Hunter, has been threatened since late last year. It’s being brought to us by production company The Unreported Society, which “strives to broadcast truth that the media tries to cover up.” (Former projects including ObamaGate the Movie and a podcast about the Harvey Weinstein trial.) My Son Hunter stars London mayoral hopeful (1.9% of the vote) Laurence Fox in the titular role, with ‘80s soap star John James playing Joe Biden. Actor and former MMA fighter Gina Carano also appears in a role that’s billed as “Secret Service Agent” but really just appears to be one of those fourth-wall-breaking narrator roles. It’s being distributed by Breitbart, the far-right commentary site.
Narratively, My Son Hunter will, to borrow The Unreported Society’s logline, “tell the story of the Biden Family Corruption through the eyes of Hunter Biden” (capitalization unchanged). Footage in the trailer seems to portray the cacophony of incongruous, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden and Ukraine. It’s like a right-wing echo chamber come to life as dramatically color-balanced cinematography. You’ve gotta see it to believe it:
In the director’s chair is Robert Davi, an actor who connoisseurs of ‘80s and ‘90s cinema will know as a familiar face who appeared in everything from The Goonies to Die Hard, and made perhaps his most notable appearance as the villain in the 1990 James Bond film Licence to Kill. But you may also recognize him as the voice behind ‘Rtas Vadum, the Covenant shipmaster from Halo 2 and Halo 3. A key ally of the Arbiter, Vadum spearheads the Elites’ defection from the Prophets in an effort to back humanity on the quest of “making it so all sentient life in the galaxy isn’t eliminated in an instant.” Vadum also gets the trilogy’s “then it is an even fight” line, which was, back then, a requisite for all action series.
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https://kotaku.com/my-son-hunter-biden-gina-carano-robert-davi-halo-3-1849468462
Over the weekend, a trailer for a blatantly right-wing biopic about president Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, made the rounds. It looks all kinds of bonkers. Also, it’s directed by a voice actor from Bungie’s Halo trilogy. Hey, let’s all give it up for the gaming angle!
The film, titled My Son Hunter, has been threatened since late last year. It’s being brought to us by production company The Unreported Society, which “strives to broadcast truth that the media tries to cover up.” (Former projects including ObamaGate the Movie and a podcast about the Harvey Weinstein trial.) My Son Hunter stars London mayoral hopeful (1.9% of the vote) Laurence Fox in the titular role, with ‘80s soap star John James playing Joe Biden. Actor and former MMA fighter Gina Carano also appears in a role that’s billed as “Secret Service Agent” but really just appears to be one of those fourth-wall-breaking narrator roles. It’s being distributed by Breitbart, the far-right commentary site.
Narratively, My Son Hunter will, to borrow The Unreported Society’s logline, “tell the story of the Biden Family Corruption through the eyes of Hunter Biden” (capitalization unchanged). Footage in the trailer seems to portray the cacophony of incongruous, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden and Ukraine. It’s like a right-wing echo chamber come to life as dramatically color-balanced cinematography. You’ve gotta see it to believe it:
In the director’s chair is Robert Davi, an actor who connoisseurs of ‘80s and ‘90s cinema will know as a familiar face who appeared in everything from The Goonies to Die Hard, and made perhaps his most notable appearance as the villain in the 1990 James Bond film Licence to Kill. But you may also recognize him as the voice behind ‘Rtas Vadum, the Covenant shipmaster from Halo 2 and Halo 3. A key ally of the Arbiter, Vadum spearheads the Elites’ defection from the Prophets in an effort to back humanity on the quest of “making it so all sentient life in the galaxy isn’t eliminated in an instant.” Vadum also gets the trilogy’s “then it is an even fight” line, which was, back then, a requisite for all action series.
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Chris Matthews is making his acting debut.... 
with people like Hunter Biden and Dr. Fauci. 