Matt Damon to Star in Anti-Fracking Film 'Promised Land'
With hydraulic fracking looking more and more like the future of American energy independence, the Left are predictably bringing out the big guns to stop it.
Doing his part is actor Matt Damon who has co-written and will star in next year's "Promised Land."
An email message from documentarians Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer published by Common American Journal Wednesday offered specifics:
PROMISED LAND will be directed by Gus Van Sant and co-star John Krasinski, who plays Jim in NBC’s The Office. This will be a huge movie – with a big budget and a lot of promotion and advertising and sources tell us it will be portraying fracking in a very negative light.
As you probably know, Matt Damon is just the latest Hollywood superstar to come out against fracking. Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Mark Ruffallo have also campaigned against the process.
IMDb also identifies Hollywood heavyweights Frances McDormand and Hal Holbrook as cast members.
The movie will be filmed on location in Pittsburgh as Pennsylvania is currently one of the nation's major fracking states.
As McElhinney and McAleer predict, "Promised Land" is sure to get an extraordinary amount of attention irrespective of its factual or scientific accuracy.
With that in mind, for those interested in countering Hollywood's efforts to demonize fracking, please see McElhinney and McAleer's project "FrackNation," a "film that will tell the truth about fracking."
A press release from Ann and Phelim Media I received via email Thursday elaborated:
Environmentalists have claimed fracking pollutes water. However, the Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that its investigations of a number of high profile incidents have revealed no pollution, and the allegations of contamination lack a scientific basis.
It appears fracking will be a new battleground between the forces in America striving for energy independence and those that will do anything to prevent the United States from fully utilizing its own natural resources.
As conservative blogger Rick Moore tweeted moments ago, "Promised Land" looks like "The China Syndrome" of fracking.
Let's hope not.
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Sheesh!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:16pm.
Anything that doesn't get power from the sun, wind, rainbows or unicorns is evil.
Oops, all that oil and gas are the result of sunlight.
Don't expect him to star in
Submitted by kg on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 8:03pm.
Don't expect him to star in an anti-socialism move anytime soon.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
A Leftist Lie By Any Other Name
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:18pm.
A movie bound to contain manufractured truths.
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Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:21pm.
Good thing for me, Hollywood wasn't like this in the 20's and 30's.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Good luck in western PA,
Submitted by forest on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:37pm.
Good luck in western PA, moonbats. Your going to get booed harder than Biden did.
You're absolutely spot on
Submitted by nixon on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:44pm.
You're absolutely spot on there !
frack hollywood
Submitted by botg on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:50pm.
someone had to say it
;^)
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Isn't Western PA what prompted Obama's "bitter clingers" saying?
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:54pm.
Wasn't Western Pennsylvania the area that Obama referred to as the "bitter clingers" in his infamous frack-up in San Francisco?
I don't know much about the area, but I can imagine those good Western Pennsylvanians who are in red counties ( http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2008/08/swing_state_revie... ) are less than thrilled to see idiots like Matt Damon and his fellow Hollyweirdos go after an industry they are promoting to help bring them back economically.
Like other anti-American movies, I hope it flops badly at the box office.
Matt Damon's still alive?
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 5:29pm.
I could've sworn he was schwacked by Team America: World Police.
The next thing they'll tell us Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, Jeanine Garofolo, Samuel L. Jackson, and Tim Robbins are still alive, too.
Matt Damon
Submitted by Outback Jon on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 11:46pm.
Matt Damon!
That's the only way I can picture him since seeing Team America.
Amerika, the land of scarcity
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 5:34pm.
The Left cannot let the country become comfortable and wealthy. When people are comfortable they tend to become independent and Conservative. Power for the Left comes from exploiting people who are in turmoil and desperate.
They tolerate oil imports. Oil imports drain trillions out of our economy. So-called Green energy is expensive and would take decades to produce in any significant volume.
obama's latest stupid Green dream is to take algae and turn it into oil. Turn algae into oil when oil is all around us. But why? Because the production of oil from pond scum by it's limited volume would be a choke point on our use of energy.
A wealthy energy independent America would turn on the Lefties and flush them out to sea.
Well said
Submitted by MacWell on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 8:29pm.
and more to the point, the whole leftist movement, along with communism, is contrived to keep people like children, so they can be trained to work on command.
I hope we the people turn Obama into algae in November.
We the people MUST remove all those who believe that America NEEDS to be "fundamentally transformed".
MATT
Submitted by jetsgiants on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 6:28pm.
OH GOOD DAMON THE BOMBMAKER,AND SOON TO BE FORGOTTEN
I stopped watching Tom Hank's movies...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 6:36pm.
...so saying "Buh-bye" to Matt Dumb-on is not all that hard...
I am proud to say the fracked
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 6:59pm.
I am proud to say the fracked my land and I am now in the pocket of big oil. I am upset there were no earthquakes or gas coming through water pipes or evil toxins in the water supply so I could squeeze more money out of the big oil pockets. However there has been a spate of tornadoes recently. Hmmmm.
Matt Damon
Submitted by MacWell on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 8:23pm.
Is a figment of your imagination.
He does not exist.
He is CGI.
He's a legend in his own mind.
If not for hollywood, he would be delivering pizzas.
I predict it will bomb
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 8:32pm.
Bad move by Damon, but who's shocked eh.
Seems every movie he is in, has him pitted against the Machine. But then he continues to promote more of it?
You ARE Good At Making Believe, Matty Buddy
Submitted by rammingspeed on Thu, 04/05/2012 - 10:26pm.
Another lying piece of bullsh*t that the public will resoundingly reject and will quickly get the boot from Netflix et al. Damon and his crew of demented dweebs are certifiably insane.
I'm sure that, if they asked,
Submitted by JohnK on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:27am.
I'm sure that, if they asked, Jane "China Syndrome" Fonda would be happy to participate.
Boycott this trash (author and movie)
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 11:19am.
let him lose some money and get no recognition or affect for it. What a self righteous moron (yet another one).
Bond, James Bond!
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:47pm.
Injecting water into fault lines causes earthquakes! Wasn't that a plot from a 007 movie?
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