The The treatment is almost complete. The Devil’s Trianglemy book from 2022, will soon be a film script.

Some have told us not to do it. The Devil’s Triangle tells how I was targeted in the fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 2018. The criminal left tried to overturn the nomination.

Now we’re making a film. The political left doesn’t want to see that. They don’t want their evil exposed. There are also some on the right who think we should just let it go – they prefer complaints to creativity. But to see what a professional filmmaker and screenwriter has done with my book in the last two months and turned it into a screenplay has been a revelation. I can’t reveal the name of the screenwriter yet. But I can say that together we have created something compelling.

“We are not telling our own stories.” That’s what a conservative editor and friend said to me recently. Just a few days ago, the New York Times published an essay comparing the MAGA movement to McCarthyism. More than 70 years later, liberals are still benefiting from Joe McCarthy. In the meantime, as my friend and editor noted, we on the right are not telling our own stories. Conservatives don’t need more God is not dead Holy celluloid sermons – we need real films about real people. We need dramas with an age rating of 18+.

In the fall of 2018, right after the attack on Kavanaugh, I received a call from a veteran Hollywood actor and producer. This person had appeared in several films, including one with Johnny Depp.

“So,” he said, “how many offers have you received for your story?”

“None,” I replied.

He was astonished. I had just survived an assassination attempt by the Stasi left. They had used blackmail, research into the opposition and a honey trap to get me to destroy my high school friend Kavanaugh. It was a movie – or so the actor on the other end of the line thought. “That’s so typical,” said the actor. “Our side just doesn’t have the guts or the vision to pull something like that off – a story that exposes the evilness of the left is just thrown into our laps.”

He continued: “One thing was absolutely clear: If you had failed, if you had lied and brought down Kavanaugh, Hollywood would have immediately started making a movie about it – there would have been several movies in production.”

It seems conservatives prefer the satisfaction of bitching about Hollywood to doing something. They don’t have the same courage as artistic liberals who have been trained in the DIY or Do It Yourself ethic. Leftists bust their asses to make small independent films or punk rock records, often in spite of people telling them they can’t, it’s impossible, they should give up. They do it anyway. Spike Lee becomes a master director. U2 finally plays in stadiums.

The actor who called me in 2018 knows this. He saw a strong story and how it resonates because most of us are flawed. I was a man of the middle; the left hated me for defying them during the scandal, not to mention that I was pro-life. I was also a former drinker with a pretty wild past. The actor summed it up: “The whole thing is a psychological thriller with a flawed protagonist. You would have to go back to the 1970s to The Incorruptibles And The Parallax Viewto get a feel for it, although the flashbacks to the 1980s would be great too. Imagine the soundtrack!”

Conservatives might argue that we already make decent films. They point to Ben Shapiro, whose Daily Wire is now producing films. The three they have released are Run, hide, fight, Locked upAnd Terror in the Prairie. All are damsel in distress dramas, with a single woman fighting against alien marauders. They are all essentially the same film. We have to have the courage to make not just films that preach morality or offer binary moral choices, but films with a certain ambiguity and darkness. The Devil’s Triangle has sex and psychology and politics and drugs and skateboarding and Jesuits. It’s rated R. That’s non-negotiable.

A Last word: We would like to have Alec Baldwin there The Devil’s Triangle. In 2016, the actor (and lousy security expert on the film set) saw a short video I had made. It was a black and white video for a young singer who was just about to American Idol. She made it into the top 10, where a lot of people saw my photos and films of her. One of them was Baldwin, who contacted me and praised my work. He wanted to work with me – “Let’s make a weird little film together.” Baldwin then asked me to “explain to me, frame by frame, what you want to do.”

It didn’t work out, but I never forgot my interaction with Baldwin. It revealed something I’d known for years. The left is better at supporting artists than the right. Liberals find talent and channel it into a system of grants, fellowships, and general support. That’s how art is created that changes culture.

The difference between the silence on the right, which sets the tone, The Devil’s Triangle into a film and my interaction with Baldwin is telling. It was easier to impress Baldwin, who like me had grown up in an Irish Catholic home that idolized John F. Kennedy, than to get support from the right for The Devil’s Triangle.

By September we will have a script. As Baldwin put it in Glengarry Glen Ross“Are you man enough to endure it?”