McCarthy, a new film about 1950s anti-communist Sen. Joseph McCarthy, is set for worldwide distribution. The film stars Michael Shannon as McCarthy and Game of Thrones’s Emilia Clarke as McCarthy’s wife Jean Kerr.
“[McCarthy is] the first feature film to look at the man behind McCarthyism,” the logline to the film says. “To understand what drove a lawyer and decorated former U.S. Marine down an unprecedented path of demagoguery, show-trials, and venomous populism.”
McCarthy has been shooting since 2022 and has no release date yet.
It’s amazing that more than 70 years after Joe McCarthy went after communists (with a lot of evidence, even if recklessly), the Hollywood Left is retelling (and retelling and retelling) his story. There have been countless movies, TV shows, books, and documentaries on McCarthy. Just a couple of weeks ago, the New York Times ran an essay comparing former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement to McCarthyism.
However, in 2024, there is some conservative competition to Hollywood liberalism. This week, Reagan, a biopic of the beloved 40th president of the United States, is being released. The film stars Dennis Quade and has gotten good reviews.
Yes, the former president is depicted in a heroic light, but there is also depth to the film, which is expertly shot, edited, and acted.
One aspect of Reagan’s life that stood out to David Henrie, the actor who plays the young Reagan, is the fact that Reagan was a child of alcoholism. “That to me, when I was studying him, unlocked a lot because that is a very impactful thing on anybody,” Henrie told the Catholic News Agency. “You can go different ways with that if you’re a child of that type of environment, and he chose to turn it into a superpower — a source of empathy, compassion, understanding, mutual suffering.”
The week after Reagan is released, the movie God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust will hit theaters. I recently saw a press screening of the film, and it is terrific. It tells the story of Rev. David Hill (David A.R. White), who enters a congressional race after the sudden death of a favored incumbent. David faces off against state Sen. Peter Kane, an atheist opponent determined to push religion out of the public square. David’s campaign becomes a symbol of hope for many people who are searching for spiritual and moral clarity and are tired of the socialism of the Left.
One of the most important characters in God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust is Martin, played by Paul Kwo. Martin has come to the U.S. from communist China. A former atheist and now a Christian, Martin warns Reverend Hill about the Cultural Revolution in China and how it had spread to America.
The Cultural Revolution was a nightmare period in the 1960s in China when people were tortured and killed if they dissented at all from the Marxist teachings of leader Mao Zedong. Hollywood loves to make movies about Joe McCarthy, but they are far more reluctant to address the Cultural Revolution and how something similar may happen in America.
Finally, there is the film project that I am involved in. Two screenwriters and I have just finished the treatment for a film called The Devil’s Triangle. It’s a story that Hollywood, not to mention the leftist media fluffing for Vice President Kamala Harris, does not want told.
The Devil’s Triangle recounts how I was targeted in the 2018 battle for Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination. The criminal Left tried to blow up the nomination. Harris, then a senator, used fake accusations and browbeating to try and destroy us. In short, she did everything Sen. Joseph McCarthy was accused of.
The political Left doesn’t want to see this. It doesn’t want its evil exposed. After all, there’s no need to go back 70 years to dramatize the abuse many people endured under Joe McCarthy during the Red Scare when something identical (or worse) happened just a few years ago.
What a professional filmmaker has done with my book in the last several months, shaping it into a thrilling screenplay, has been a revelation. We believe it can be a great film that is both brave and exciting. Conservatives can’t claim that we can’t make great Hollywood movies when we have a script that’s ready to shoot — and for a reasonable budget.
Reagan, God’s Not Dead, and The Devil’s Triangle give me hope that there are people in Hollywood who continue to be interested in telling dramatic stories that don’t preach liberalism.
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Mark Judge is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs. the New American Stasi. He is also the author of God and Man at Georgetown Prep, Damn Senators, and A Tremor of Bliss.