If your household is anything like mine, you sometimes check what’s playing at the local movie theater and ask, “Why aren’t there more movies being made by Rick Santorum?”
Well, we’re in luck. The former senator is going Hollywood.
Rick Santorum is in early talks on a movie project with Hollywood producer Stephen McEveety.
Rumors have been buzzing throughout Harrisburg that Santorum was connecting with McEveety, who produced Mel Gibson blockbusters such as “Braveheart,” “The Passion of the Christ” and “We Were Soldiers,” on a project.
Santorum seems anxious to steer clear of the star McEveety has worked with. “I am not doing anything with Mel Gibson,” Santorum said. “I am doing something with a movie project, but it is in the very, very early stages of the project. The only Gibson connection is that the guy that I am doing this with used to work for Gibson, but he does not now.”
How do you know when a prominent, conservative public figure is really controversial? When Rick Santorum doesn’t want anything to do with him.
Of course, this McEveety/Santorum production isn’t just some vague collaborative idea; they apparently have a specific story in mind.
The New York Post, which is not exactly an unimpeachable source, explained:
At the Pierre Hotel recently, the pair was discussing a film “to be released in October of 2008 in order to influence the November election.”
From what our eaves dropper could tell, it’s about “Three Iranian brothers . . . One comes to the U.S. as a terrorist.”
Santorum and Mc Eveety didn’t return calls for comment.
I’m not particularly inclined to believe the New York Post’s “eaves dropper,” but the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review confirms that Santorum’s movie will follow “three Iranian brothers who take disparate paths in their lives, including one who becomes a terrorist.”
Given Santorum’s cerebral, even-handed approach to the Middle East, I’m sure it’s going to be a movie that’s fun for the whole family.