Investor in Donald Trump movie reportedly thought it would be flattering, and now he’s pissed
The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, isn't the movie Dan Snyder thought it would be
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It’s a pretty big stretch to think that classically liberal Hollywood would ever make a movie that was a flattering portrayal of Donald Trump. Maybe because it’s an indie film, billionaire investor Dan Snyder (former owner of the Washington Commanders) thought The Apprentice might turn against the tide of the entertainment industry’s typical values. There’s been no press ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere for The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, and Maria Bakalova, so we don’t know exactly what the movie is like. But it’s definitely not pro-Trump, and Snyder is reportedly pissed.
According to Variety, Snyder—who is a friend of the former president and a major donor to his previous campaigns—invested money in the movie via production company Kinematics because he thought it would be nice to his pal. When he saw a cut of the movie in February, he was allegedly furious and has been trying to get “multiple aspects” of the movie changed. There are even supposedly lawyers involved sending the filmmakers cease and desists, though Kinematics president Emanuel Nuñez denied that Snyder was pulling strings behind the scenes in a statement to the outlet: “All creative and business decisions involving The Apprentice have always been and continue to be solely made by Kinematics. Mark and I run our company without the involvement of any other third parties.” (Note that Nuñez didn’t deny there are legal issues going on behind the scenes.)
Because nobody knows much about the movie, it’s unclear what a “flattering” portrayal would’ve really entailed, at least in Snyder’s view. Trump’s friends and supporters seem to like him because he’s an asshole and a bully, so it’s hard to imagine Snyder was looking for some sanitized version of his story where he came across sweet and saintly. Maybe the issue is with the film’s focus on Trump’s (Stan) relationship with Roy Cohn (Strong), which could make the businessman-turned-politician look like an easily manipulated puppet. (That’s just speculation. We haven’t seen the movie.) A source told Variety that the film features a “violent” and “uncomfortable” scene of Trump sexually assaulting his wife Ivana (Bakalova), something that Ivana claimed in a divorce deposition but later recanted. Though none of the many public sexual assault allegations prevented Trump from being elected, it’s easy to imagine a friend of his would try to get this excised from his movie.
Perhaps that’s the real reason Snyder invested in the film—to get some measure of control on the messaging of a movie about a candidate coming out in an election year. It just seems impossibly naive that Snyder wouldn’t expect the film to show Trump in a negative light, especially for a man described as a “fixture at the festival where he socializes with other billionaires on his yacht.” For a guy that cozy with the film industry, he had to see the anti-Trump writing on the wall, right? Kinematics can’t kill the film because it doesn’t own the copyright, but it does have a say in the sales, so it’ll be interesting to see where this one goes.
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Looking forward to the Snyder Cut, which is just two hours of Dan gargling Trump’s shriveled, old balls.
I can honestly say that I am not looking forward to seeing that.
LOL nice
In slow motion
whoa, slow-motion ball-gargle!
This was funny. But you forgot “CGI Balls”You assumed Trump has balls.
Ivanka has them. I suspect he just handed them over.
His daughter?
Definitely.
Beat me to it, dammit
[motorboat sound]
You get a star for making me laugh, though I’m tempted to remove it for causing me to spend the next five minutes dry heaving to the mental image of someone’s mouth near Trump’s testicles.
You’re….looking forward to that?
it’s unclear what a “flattering” portrayal would’ve really entailed, at least in Snyder’s view. Trump’s friends and supporters seem to like him because he’s an asshole and a bully, so it’s hard to imagine Snyder was looking for some sanitized version of his story where he came across sweet and saintlyIf I had to guess, a flattering portrayal would be one hour of Trump being an asshole and a bully and everyone loving him for it (even the people he’s bullying, because gosh darn it, that’s just tough love!) and one hour of the Deep State conspiring to make Trump bad by planting every negative thing Trump has ever been accused of.
Dan Snyder knew who Roy Cohn was, presumably?
yeah, i don’t know how you can make anything remotely truth-based featuring trump and cohn and it not turn out making them look bad
That’s because you’re expecting the film to be “truth based,” or in other words, honest, or accurate.
Men (and women) like Dan Snyder have decided long ago that truth and accuracy are globalist plots.
I wouldn’t presume Dan Snyder, a famous idiot, to know anything about anything.
Yeah, presumably he could have read paid someone to read the script but he apparently didn’t bother?
I expect he thought that his money meant everything would turn out to his liking, in the manner he’s accustomed.
Dedicated advocate for the marginalized and disenfranchised, and one of New York’s most eligible bachelors.
Roger Stone’s mentor, so a great guy all around in Snyder’s books.
Um, you might want to check your facts. Dan Snyder no longer owns the Washington Commanders.
Dan Snyder is not owner of the Washington Commanders.
I’ve never seen a photo of Trump that could be even generously described as “flattering.” He’s a gross old pig and always has been.
Your use of “pig” reminded me of a John Waters quote about Roy Cohn (regarding Cohn & company doing cocaine in Provincetown): “I wouldn’t have my nostril on the same straw as that pig.”
You gotta have your own straw though, regardless. People are gross. I always appreciated the maybe three people I ever met who had their own reusable tiny metal coke straw.
Too bad the spoon on a chain went out of fashion with Sammy Davis Jr.’s death.
Jebus, the old McDonald’s coffee stirrer…
I like Michael Harriots summation – “A busted can of dough.”
“Dan Snyder (owner of the Washington Commanders)“ * former owner of the Washington Commanders. The NFL basically forced him out because he’s such a pathetic cheapskate, which makes it even more fascinating that he sunk his money into this.
It really says something about you when even known horrible people like Jerry Jones and Stan Kroenke are embarrassed to have you around.
You are correct, Doctor. I mean Kroenke and Jones are cunts but Snyder is a Huge Cunt. For the record, Trump is a bigger cunt than all three.
Famously, the NFL would not allow Donny to buy a team. Another example of a person so terrible even the terrible people don’t want anything to do with him. That’s why he got involved with the USFL. “Many people say” that if he would have been allowed in the NFL, he never would have gotten interested in being President. So that’s another thing we can thank them for.
Trump would have been exactly like Snyder, always trying to run a team on a string. Doing the minimum doesn’t fly in the NFL.
I just have to assume you have expertise on the field of who is, and to what extent they are, a cunt.
Snyder is absolutely despised in the DC area. I grew up inside the Beltway and there a very few things that bring us all together—the Metro system, the Beltway and the Redskins (now Commanders—I get that they had to change the name but that sucks). Hating Snyder (there are other reasons besides his mismanagement of the Cs) became the local past time.
Yeah but pretty much every other owner loves for people to know how much money they pump into their teams. Snyder took his cut (the “Snyder Cut,” of course) of the league earnings and dropped it in his pocket.
My new favorite piece of information around that: A DC area brewer made a beer named “Bye Dan.” The website says it ” tastes like 23 years of bitterness!”
And yet, he paid Albert Haynesworth $100 million to not exercise.
And allegations of sexual harrasment in the front office as well. Can’t forget those. That is what really forced the NFL to force him to sell the team. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38043823/commanders-dan-snyder-fined-60m-findings-investigation
You know you’ve lost the plot when you take Dan Snyder’s side on anything. The lack of research here is astounding. Snyder was forced to sell the Commanders months ago for fostering a decades long work environment that promoted sexual abuse. Yet, here’s the AV club ignorantly using Snyder to take an irrelevant shot at Trump. The entire staff needs to be treated for severe TDS.
Uh Snyder is the one stanning Trump here
He knows. It’s basement-level trolling. Chapter Two in “Trolling 101″ shit.Why some basement-level crust chuds choose to troll this particular site as if it’s some manner of accomplishment is beyond me.
Bless your heart
Snyder has TDS for sure.
An impressively negative level of username/post synergy here.
I’d appreciate troll shtick if modern trolls were funny *at all*.
There shenanigans should be cheeky and fun, not cruel and tragic.
It’s not that I haven’t run across clever conservative internet users who were a joy to debate with during my time on the internet, but, in my experience, con posters who: – Choose usernames that go out of their way to portray neutrality, such as “The Observer” or “Balanced View” or, well, “Common Sense” and con posters who: – choose some sort of anonymous bewigged eighteenth century gentleman as their avatar, and con posters who – choose a classical Greek or Roman bust for their avatar are mostly a bunch of crazy-assed, far-right loons. It’s all anecdotal, but there you are.
Absolutely. Another tell in the username is any version of “Truth.”
Oh, yeah, or “eagle!”
Didn’t read the article at all then, huh? Just saw Trump’s name and your (metaphorical, probably) brain worm twitched and you had to say something. It’s okay, go back to bed.
Imagine being this fragile.
Is this fragility though? Presumably Snyder isn’t in the movie. I kinda doubt he actually gets emotional about how Trump is portrayed in the media. More likely he wants Trump to win the election and doesn’t want the movie hurting his chances. He also may not want Trump to get mad at him when he doesn’t like the movie/coverage of the movie. Fuck him anyway, but I’m just saying.
Billionaire businessman invest money in project, doesn’t read fine print and tries to alter reality to suit his feelings.Yeah, he’s fragile. Most people would shrug or make effort to read to their contracts next time.
Most people would just shrug off millions of dollars?I somehow doubt it.
If it’s your own dumb fault for not reading the contract, then literally the only thing you can do is shrug it off. Or be a big whiny baby. Either way you’re not getting that money back.
Seb Stan as Trump? Don’t cast him as a heart throb actor cmon
The fact that Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong are starring in this indicates that they are going to rip Trump a new one. They are going to absolutely skewer his criminal ass.
Snyder is the ex owner of the the Washington football team. This area celebrated so damn hard after the final sale of the team. Please fix.
nobody is thinner skinned than rich people who don’t deserve to be
So like… every last one of them.
Oh, that reminds me…
By the way, this is the Dowager Empress of Westralia’s “Approved” portrait, done by “a local artist” (no actual credit given to the artist):You’ll note she’s about 40 years younger (and 40kg lighter…)I know a woman who’s friends with people who’ve worked with her…and yeah, she’s a weird princess (inherited- well, sued-for, wealth). She doesn’t allow men to drink beer when dining with her (in fuckin’ Australia, for fuck’s sake), and expects all men to have an excellent knowledge of wine and order accordingly – if not, you are seriously lowered in her esteem. Her senior staff are expected to address her only as “Mrs. Rinehart”. Part of the controversy that hasn’t gotten aired is the fact that artist of the controversial portrait, Vincent Namatjira, is Indigenous. And the father whose estate she sued to get her money (ironically, she’s cut her children off from her dad’s wealth, and they’ve taken her to court), said that all Aboriginal Australians should be sterilised so they “breed themselves out”. Oh, and the amount of money she donated to the National Gallery of Australia, which she believes gives her the right to demand Namatjira’s portrait taken down…is between only $5000 and $10,000.
Maybe he’s upset because the movie isn’t on par quality wise with his previous work Which is to say…it might actually win something
Weird to think that episode was a decade ago.
Good. Fuck that guy.
I half hope he manages to cancel the thing entirely. I never watched the W movie, even though it looked moderately interesting, because why would I want to spend more time with that guy once he finally slunk off to paint bathtubs? I certainly don’t want a movie about this shithead, who didn’t even disappear after he was voted out.
I’ll watch it for Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn because that sounds fantastic.
I guess Snyder and his lawyers could make this all so expensive for Kinematics that they settle by making changes to the movie, but on actual legal grounds I don’t see how he has any case whatsoever.
That starts and acumen is why my fellow Washington NFL fans and I appreciated Snyder’s ownership for so long.
When is this supposed to premier and, please, can everyone else make a movie too? No, just make a series so that we can watch it for five straight months. I want to see Fred Trump Sr. and Co. scapegoating Fred Jr. until he gave up on life, and then his kids – including Mary Trump, were cheated after Senior’s death. Let’s see Trump Jr. bullying everyone at miliary school. Did he use The Wall Street Journal for early masturbation sessions? And then there’s the time he grew so envious of his first wife’s business success that he humiliated then dumped her. So much entertainment value it’ll make The Apprentice blush.
Dan Snyder is the epitome of ‘evil rich person’–maybe more so than Trump, though my awareness was heightened by living in the D.C. viewership area and reading the annual news story that was reprinted every single year (and added to when appropriate) of all the horrible crap he pulled as owner of the Redskins. Anytime he’s in the news it’s for something horrible, and OF COURSE he’s good friends with Trump.
Maybe the issue is with the film’s focus on Trump’s (Stan) relationship with Roy Cohn (Strong)… Trump sexually assaulting his wife Ivana (Bakalova)
Wait… WHAT???With A LOT of good will and suspension of disbelief , I can buy Jeremy Strong and Maria Bakalova as Roy Cohn and Ivana Trump… But Sebastian Stan portraying Donald Trump, even in his young years, means one of two things: either half the budget of the movie was spent in make up, prosthetics, and special effects, or this movie skyrocketed over sci-fi/fantasy straight into magic realism that even Gabriel García Márquez couldn’t conceive!
It just seems impossibly naive that Snyder wouldn’t expect the film to show Trump in a negative light, especially for a man described as a “fixture at the festival where he socializes with other billionaires on his yacht.”I think it’s virtually impossible to overestimate the amount to which billionaires can remove themselves from reality.
>classically liberal Hollywood What kind of drugs are you smoking? There is nothing classically liberal about Hollywood.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism#:~:text=Classical%20liberalism%20is%20a%20political,freedom%20and%20freedom%20of%20speech.
Ivana: “Donald, I know I told everyone that you sexually assaulted me, but I will recant that claim if you promise me that when I die, you bury me on your golf course for tax purposes.”
i don’t believe it has anything to do with Hollywood liberal attitude, you can’t turn shit to gold… that’s all…
What continues to vex me most about Trump is that he’s happily proven all on his own that he’s a complete and utter asshole since the 80s, yet he has a cult that literally worships him. I just don’t get it.
Because many of the people who worship him are assholes too?
He is the patron saint of every one who wants to make it everyone else’s problem that they don’t know a goddamned thing about anything.
Dan Snyder is so fucking stupid it’s amazing he hasn’t walked over an open manhole and died.
Man sues mirror manufacturer for unflattering reflection.
Many people are saying they’ve never seen such a sick and bad movie!
That’s pretty funny. Especially if Kinematics blew smoke up his ass about it being a flattering movie, just to get the dough. Snyder should appreciate that this is straight out of the Don’s playbook
I hope they enjoy the lawsuit. I know I will.