Jim Caviezel Declares War on Woke Hollywood: “We’re Taking America Back”

Jim, the number one movie in America, as we project it, is Ghost Soldiers as it kicks off today. Tell us about the movie and why is it important for this audience to go see it and go see it today, tomorrow, Friday, Saturday. Repeat screenings. Jim Caviezel. Well, a lot of us are a little down after those elections, and this is the remedy for it. It's a kick-ass film, and it's much in the same vein of Charlton Heston. The movies that he made were very real. It had great honor and faith of warriorship in it. We did the same way. I had Chris Papasidero, who wrote this script, who's Green Beret. And I've been around a lot of great veterans over the years that have really trained me, especially with weapons and fighting. I started off doing G.I. Jane and all the Navy SEAL community with Harry Humphrey, Scott Halverson, Ashim Shalon, David Bruce. Thank And I wanted to make something that would represent our country, something that wasn't emasculating, because we've seen that something that isn't woke. As Trump says, go woke, go broke. And we ain't going broke anymore. This is about a guy who stands up to tyranny, you. a great tyranny that's taken land away from people that can't defend themselves, people that are losing their water, much the same way what's going on right now across America. This is a Concord Bridge. This is the moment when the Brits are going to take our gunpowder. And at that bridge, at Concord Bridge, those American soldiers stood and fought, fought back. And that is kind of what this is, is a guy that goes in and kicks the hell out of all these corporations. And we're taking our country back. That's really the gist of the film. And I'm telling you, the boys that watch this, your children can go see it. The boys, we showed it to a group of Navy SEALs and their boys and the aviators and their boys in Coronado. And I asked them what they thought of it. I could see them running around just, and they screamed out because that was their papa fighting for them. That was their papa loving on them. And we need this now. And I want to thank Sony. I want to thank Tom Rothman. I want to thank Sanford Panitch and Anj Giannetti and Josh Goldstein for finally stepping up and taking it on the chin and making the right move for Hollywood. Because we're flipping this, man. We're flipping it. We're taking America back. Jim, you know, Sound of Freedom, Passion of Christ, others have been these huge independent films. Sound of Freedom, I think the biggest, one of the biggest, biggest non, you know, comic book hero films from the career You've been in the independent film world. You've also done studio pictures. But how do you get a studio to both produce this film, to release the film, have all this action in it? With their kind of, you know, motivations, and you have it PG-13, and yet people are raving about this movie. How did you work that? Well, it's a very unusual film. It's a film that hasn't been out there that people have been screaming out to see for a long time. And it starts with a guy named Josh Goldstein, who now is running Paramount. But he was head of marketing at Sony, and they told me that 90%— 90% of the viewership in America, the people that, and what I mean by that is people that go to movies habitually, once a week, we're no longer going to movies. And that's devastating. That means the American film won't survive. We've been watching from decade to decade, won't survive, and nobody's watching the Academy Awards anymore. And Sony picked up on all this, and they went out and investigated to the public, you know, who do you like? And it came back across America, my name, my name because of the films I've done, films that I did like The Passion of the Christ, like Sound of Freedom, and stood up and took it in the chin because some of us, you know, if we're really believe in this country and want to make it work, we have to. You know, be warriors in anything we do and really starts from us. And this is what Trump has been showing a lot of us, that it can't just be him. It has to be us, each individual. Peace begins with us. I don't want to give the plot away. I don't want to give all the, you know, the great inflection points, but just give us the overarching you know plot of the the film the story why did it move you so much you get offers all the time why did you choose choose this script at this time it wasn't a hollywood film bottom line it was real it was what people have been screaming out to me all across america why won't you make these kind of films it was with jimmy stewart Said to me years ago, you young man, you make good movies. He was in the military and he flew 26 missions over Nazi Germany. He was a brigadier general. He was a great American. He won Academy Award. Right after that, he went and served our nation. And so Chris Papasidero, who wrote this, it was about a Green Beret. And he, he lives off the green, the grid, he's a veteran and he makes weapons, advanced weapons, really cool, like even better than James Bond weapons. Anyway, he, um, uh, gets in it with this little boy, little boys is being bullied around and, and he protects him. And, um, and then that leads up to the next level, the, the town. um that he has to serve uh you know trying to protect um from these corporations that are trying to steal our water and our land. Why do you think this film for right now we've got indications it's it's it's trending number one right now why is this a film that America should see and should see over the next couple of days? It's what you were doing all day today and what people were doing when they're watching their veterans that died watch their families and their brothers and sisters die. It's what we want. We know in our hearts that if this country falls, the entire world's going to fall. It's over. God gave us this moment. This moment, this fits character. He reminds us of us. And we've been marginalized. You saw it in The Passion of the Christ. We were marginalized. We had articles that were written. Mel Gibson and me, 107 articles, the front page of the New York Times just ripped the hell out of us telling you not to go and you came anyway. I've never put out crap. I've always wanted to put out something that would make people like Jimmy Stewart and my family and my country proud. And I knew this would. I knew this would because it wasn't about the emasculation of just some guy, or it wasn't a transgender Jesus, or it wasn't a gay Jesus, where I would have won Academy Award. I mean, let's face it. And that's why people have turned the film industry off. And I got to hand it to Sony for finally stepping up. And they didn't have to. But we went to them for Sound of Freedom. They didn't pick that film up. Angel did. Thank The Passion of the Christ did not get picked up by any of the studios. And right there, that's $3 billion. I mean, can you imagine turning $3 billion down? So I just knew, A, make a great film. Make real stuff. Make this, this has a spirituality in it, like, you know, you. films that I used to watch, like Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee, he had a spirituality in there. And I watched it. And when Hollywood found and bought that film, because they wouldn't give him a chance. And he wanted the spirit of the warrior, the samurai in there. And they didn't want it in there. It was too much with religiosity and everything. This is what they did to me on the Count of Monte Cristo. Most people didn't know who I was back then, but they They saw it, not in the theaters, they saw it later, and they said, this is powerful. But see, the industry, they don't, it's become like very communist, very anti-God. And so there is a God element in this. And it's not something like, you know, a lot of the SEAL community that I've worked with, it's not like they walk and wear it on their sleeve, but they have it here in their heart. They have it in the right spot. And they're not an atheist in the foxhole, and that's the same. Same characteristic that Chris Papasadero, who wrote this, and the guys that believed in it, believed in me, came in and they believed. Sony believed that there was a group of Americans out there, millions of them, that would come to this movie. And this really, this is a referendum on me, referendum also on Hollywood. And Sony's ahead of it. And Sony's going to get the... The, the, a lot of Americans are going to, I think are going to start coming to their movies more. And I think more of the industry, Paramount, Josh Goldstein is now over there. And David Allison and all of them. And so give the industry just a moment more. I think the Americans are because I think they want to have that traditional movies that work because we're really fighting over what? The narrative. This is good versus evil. And generally, Americans and people in the world, they love this kind of thing. And we have to build our wall up. And we've got to be stronger because without a wall, we have no country.