Amanda Milius, daughter of legendary screenwriter-director John Milius and a State Department alum, has directed 'The Plot Against the President', based on Lee Smith’s 2019 best-seller of the same name.
00:00A pro-Trump Russiagate documentary is in the works from the daughter of a Hollywood legend.
00:05The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal that Amanda Milius, daughter of legendary screenwriter and director John Milius and a State Department alum,
00:12has directed a doc titled The Plot Against the President, based on Lee Smith's 2019 bestseller of the same name.
00:19She optioned the book in manuscript form last year.
00:22Russiagate critics interviewed for the Hush Hush doc include Congressman Devin Nunes, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Rudy Giuliani, and Roger Stone, among others.
00:31There was an illusion being created using the most awesome tools and the greatest tricks that the American intelligence community had learned to use against our enemies.
00:38Now it was being deployed against the American people and our president.
00:41The producers of the pro-Trump doc are currently in talks with a few distributors and are planning on an October 1st release in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
00:49The director says the plot against the president should appeal beyond conservatives and is significant to both Republicans and Democrats.
00:55According to her, I definitely think this ought to be of extreme interest to all Americans because surveillance and law enforcement abuses are not a partisan issue.
01:02This isn't about the campaign. It's not even really about the president exactly.
01:06It's about people with power behaving badly and the destruction of democracy and American institutions.
01:11They worked hand in glove with Comey to try to delegitimize Trump. They were not there to tell the truth.
01:17A political dirty trick is being carried out by our intelligence community.
01:21The director's father, John Milius, is the screenwriter of such classics as Apocalypse Now and Dirty Harry.
01:26He is such a larger-than-life figure in Hollywood that he has inspired characters in at least two films.
01:31John Goodman's character in The Big Lebowski and Seth Rogen's character in Zeroville.
01:35His politics have long deviated from the industry's centrist Democratic leanings.
01:39For more on this story, head to THR.com.
01:41For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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