Bannon rides again in H’wd
THERE’S a new sheriff in Tinseltown. Page Six is told that Steve Bannon is getting back into the movie business — and that the gunslinging conservative is particularly interested in making Westerns.
Sources say that since leaving the White House in August, the former chief strategist to the president has been taking meetings with movie companies. We’re told the appearance of Bannon — who has already returned to the media after his stint in DC, resuming as executive chairman of Breitbart News — in liberal Hollywood circles has left some feeling queasy. But execs have been willing to hear him out. “The Western thing actually makes sense when you consider his strategy with Trump,” said a source, referring to Bannon’s trademark appeal to voters with old-school values. “Maybe [Bannon] thinks there’s an untapped market for movies about John Wayne-style alpha males,” the insider added.
Before his political career, Bannon was a Hollywood executive producer, making crime movie “The Indian Runner,” starring Viggo Mortensen and Patricia Arquette, and “Titus” with Anthony Hopkins in the 1990s.
In the 2000s he went on to make more than a dozen right-wing political documentaries.
Bannon also once wrote the script for “an erotic science-fiction retelling” of Shake- speare’s “Titus Andronicus” set in space, which included the memorable direction, “He climbs onto her and their forms dissolve, blend and blur in an erotic scene of ectoplasmic sex.”
He also penned a hip-hop musical about the LA riots, of which George Clooney said just this week, “If he’d somehow managed miraculously to get that thing produced, he’d still be in Hollywood, still making movies and licking my a - - to get me to do one of his stupid-a - - screenplays.” Clooney also told the Daily Beast that “Steve Bannon is a little wannabe writer who would do anything in the world to have had a script made in Hollywood.”
Reps for Bannon didn’t get back to us.