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has claimed the controversial movie is “not a hit piece” and isn’t even very “anti-Trump” — despite portraying the young Donald Trump as a rapist.with The Wrap at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the movie is screening ahead of its planned October 11 release in the U.S.
Abassi, who hails from Iran, said he didn’t imagine his movie about Trump would have so much trouble getting made. “I thought – ‘Fuck Iran. Fuck the Islamic dictatorship.’ I thought, ‘I’ll make a movie in a free country,'” he told the outlet.“They said to me, ‘We would love to do this film, but if Trump wins, if the studio gets sold – they’ll come after us.’ Or they would say, ‘We don’t want 85 million consumers to hate us.’”
In the end, the financing was cobbled together from mostly overseas film companies, as well as some domestic ones. When it came to distribution,faced a similar round of rejection from the major studios and streamers. Eventually, the indie label Briarcliff Entertainment picked it up for domestic distribution.In the end, he told The Wrap, the movie is not terribly anti-Trump.
“It’s an entertaining character piece. It’s not a hit piece,” said Abbasi. “Donald is really ‘made in America.’”has generated controversy since its splashy world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, where itany prizes or score a domestic distribution deal.
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