Gerald Molen, the Oscar-winning producer of “Schindler’s List,” “Jurassic Park” and other blockbusters, is reteaming with conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza for a movie simply called “America.”
The filmmakers behind last year’s 2016: Obama’s America are working on a follow-up to what has become the second-biggest political documentary ever at the domestic box office, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who starred in, co-wrote and co-directed 2016, will return as the writer and star of a film simply titled America to be directed by John Sullivan, who wrote and directed 2016 with D’Souza.
Gerald Molen, who won a best picture Oscar for producing Schindler’s List with Steven Spielberg in 1993, will executive produce America, as he did for 2016.
2016 shocked some industry watchers in 2012 by coming seemingly from nowhere, opening on a single screen in Houston and spreading to nearly 2,000 screens within two months, eventually earning $33.5 million on a production budget of $2.5 million. The only political documentary to outperform 2016 was Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, which made $119.2 million on a production budget of $6 million in 2004.
While 2016 was based on D’Souza’s book The Roots of Obama’s Rage, the new film will not draw from previously known source material, and the filmmakers say America is not technically a sequel to 2016, though audiences might be inclined to view it as such.
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