This film sets the case alongside a more conventional attempt to control the press, that is simply to own it – also what the super-rich plutocrats love to do. But Thiel succeeded.ĭonald Trump and Peter Thiel. Goldsmith’s bullying legal attack failed. He was, of course, also enraged by its many other criticisms and jokes. Sir James Goldsmith attempted to crush Private Eye in 1976 in a style very similar to Thiel, avowedly for suggesting he might have protected fugitive murder suspect Lord Lucan.
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The movie doesn’t mention it, but Britain has experience of this kind of thing. He is also the co-founder of the ambitious big data company Palantir, whose shady political influences have been investigated by Carole Cadwalldr in the Observer. Thiel, as a star supporter, speaks at Trump events and has appeared at media conferences with him. Donald Trump is the incarnation of that attitude, recklessly and dangerously encouraging the crowd at his rallies to turn on reporters, declaiming about dishonest media and fake news. The Hulk Hogan case was a brilliantly chosen strategic sortie: a precedent-setting attack on a news site which couldn’t count on much instant sympathy. The point was that Thiel is part of an arrogant breed of plutocrat who, having reached the sunlit uplands of extreme wealth and status, is irritated beyond endurance at the existence of press types who still dare to look too carefully into his business dealings. Thiel and Hogan won a staggering $140m in damages, enough to knock over first amendment issues and put Gawker out of business. As for Thiel he was already furious at Gawker’s ValleyWag column and its continual, irreverent criticism of him and his financial performance, and had, in any case, a highly authoritarian contempt for the democratic impulses of the press. But this film shows that there is ample evidence that Hogan knew that the tape was being made and was ready to let it accidentally-on-purpose emerge to promote his reality-TV career, panicking only when he thought that a longer version would become public, revealing his racist language. There are many who feel that both Hulk and Thiel were entitled to privacy and had no great sympathy for Gawker and its trashy, bitchy stories. Much later, it was revealed that the suit was secretly bankrolled by the Silicon Valley billionaire, Ayn Rand-ist libertarian and Trump supporter Peter Thiel – apparently in revenge for Gawker outing him as gay. The wrestler sued Gawker for posting a sex tape of him with his best friend’s wife – the video was allegedly made and distributed without his knowledge. The Hogan attack was a vanguard operation in the aggressive new reactionary philistinism and hatred of press freedom being nurtured by some of America’s super-rich which is encouraged as a political diversionary tactic by the US president. Certainly, I didn’t realise that, until I saw this punchy documentary which sites it in a new context. We'll let you know as soon as any casting comes down the pipeline.T he extraordinary case of Hulk Hogan’s 2015 legal action against the gossip website Gawker is far shadier, far creepier than many appreciate. Hulk Hogan has stated in the past that Chris Hemsworth might be a good fit to play him-I could see it-but since the sex tape was reportedly shot in 2006 when Hulk Hogan, aka Terry Gene Bollea, was already over 50, and since the court case happened even later in the Hulk Hogan timeline, the Aussie actor might not be the best fit for this particular project. Neuman, says that a-listers are being considered for the roles.
So far casting has yet to commence, although Blackrock Productions, headed up by David A. Red Sparrow and Hunger Games franchise director Frances Lawrence has been hired on to direct Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, and Charles Randolph is writing the movie, basing it on the book of the same name written by Ryan Holiday.
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Neuman project is happening however, Conspiracy is no longer being bandied about as a TV project but as a feature film. Neuman project that was originally being considered for a miniseries. Previously, we heard there was a Neil Meron and Craig Zadan movie project in the works and a competing David A. We've heard over the last few months that there were a couple of projects in development about the Hulk Hogan and Gawker story.
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