Steve Bannon is getting back into the movie business and he is particularly interested in making Westerns.
Sources say that since leaving the White House in August, the former chief strategist to the president has been taking meetings with movie companies.
It’s been heard the appearance of Bannon who has already returned to the media after his stint in DC, resuming as executive chairman of Breitbart News in liberal Hollywood circles has left some feeling queasy.
“The Western thing actually makes sense when you consider his strategy with Trump,” said a source, referring to Bannon’s trademark appeal to voters with old-school values. “Maybe [Bannon] thinks there’s an untapped market for movies about John Wayne-style alpha males,” the insider added.
Before his political career, Bannon was a Hollywood executive producer, making crime movie “The Indian Runner,” starring Viggo Mortensen and Patricia Arquette, and “Titus” with Anthony Hopkins in the 1990s. In the 2000s he went on to make more than a dozen right-wing political documentaries.
He also penned a hip-hop musical about the LA riots, of which George Clooney said just this week, “If he’d somehow managed miraculously to get that thing produced, he’d still be in Hollywood, still making movies and licking my a to get me to do one of his stupid a screenplays.” Clooney also told the Daily Beast that “Steve Bannon is a little wannabe writer who would do anything in the world to have had a script made in Hollywood.”
