I've got a little inside information on Premise Media, makers of Expelled — despite all the bragging about what a successful movie they had, they still haven't fully paid contractors they'd hired, and the company appears to be dead. It was a kind of zombie company anyway, with a fake website filled with fake projects to trick people into taking it seriously, and now it's simply decaying. All that's left is a collection of clips.
However, the writer, Kevin Miller, has found employment working on something even schlockier — the poor guy's career is sinking so fast, he's going to end up writing for Veggie Tales at some point. He's working on a new movie with…Kirk Cameron!
The movie is called Monumental, and I dare you to puzzle out what it's about from the description at that link. It seems to be best described as Kirk Cameron's Vanity Show, in which a film crew follows him around as he gushes out a right-wing simplistic version of American history that emphasizes how God was on our side every step of the way. It sounds like the sort of thing they'd want to bring in the Texas board of education to consult on.
I remember the classic BBC television series, America, and it has echoes of that…except instead of a guy with class and gravitas like Alistair Cooke, their narrator is going to be a pious pipsqueak creationist with a reputation for inanity and ignorance, and it's being written by a fellow whose last big screen effort was notorious for its dishonesty and incompetence. The Dunning-Kruger effect strikes again!
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