Making the Melania Movie Sounds Like a Nightmare |
Days before its premiere, things are looking rough for the Melania Trump documentary. It sounds like the film is on track to flop hard at the box office next weekend, despite Amazon’s efforts to bolster sales. And the White House is getting flak for going ahead with a glitzy private screening of the film on Saturday night as the nation was reeling from the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis. But hey, at least they had a blast making it!
Well, not exactly. Rolling Stone has a new report on all the behind-the-scenes gossip that makes the whole process sound nightmarish.
While Trump ventures often do no attract the best of what the entertainment business has to offer, the cinematographers involved in the film had surprisingly impressive résumés, and none of the sources mentioned any drama among crew members. But Rolling Stone reported that the “frantic scramble” to gather footage of Melania in the 20 days leading up to Donald Trump’s second inauguration presented huge logistical issues:
It was a chaotic process that involved........