The right-wing superhero movie’s attempt to make a superhero movie ended in disaster, with $1 million missing in China and one participant facing federal indictment.
“I wouldn’t believe we got our money back,” Theodore Beale, a far-right blogger known as “Vox Day,” admitted to his fans and investors in a video last week.
This is not how Beale followers think their investments will go in 2019, when they start contributing to fund a movie based on the Union-themed superhero comic character character. Southern Alliance created by Beale. A trailer recommended movie ads, Rebel’s Runfeatures the character Rebel battling a global police force hunting down free-thinking conservatives.
Tucker Carlson often collaborators Scooter Downey signed up to direct. Beale backers quickly surpassed their initial $750,000 funding goal, eventually raising over $1 million.
That amount is said to have been escrowd to secure several million more dollars in funding. However, three years later, the money was gone, and Beale was hoping for a movie.
The Rebel’s Run The fall is a cautionary tale for conservatives, who dream of having their ideas turned into movies, and comes as the right-wing media increasingly cover motion pictures.. Commentator Ben Shapiro’s company has a streaming website that offers conservative films, including a thriller about a school shooting and a Western starring the actor. “cancelled” actress Gina Carano. Earlier this year, Breitbart News broadcast a biopic about Hunter Biden. But Rebel’s Run The fall is a cautionary tale for conservatives showing that the move to filmmaking is not a risk-free endeavor.
There’s reason to think that Beale and his fans could realize their dream of going from comic book to movie, if only through sheer fanaticism. His devoted followers call him the “Supreme Dark Lord of the Evils Legion” and describe themselves as his “minister”. Beale supporters, who frequently complain about the influence of progressive “social justice warriors” creeping into fields like video games and science fiction, have funded a number of manga edition and stir up a controversy at the premiere award of science fiction.
Beale’s history of racism can be difficult for Rebel’s Run, which is sometimes depicted in a Confederate flag bra, for traditional financing. He has declare that certain races are more likely to commit acts of violence and called one of his enemies in the sci-fi controversy, a Black author, “half-barbarian.” Beale has linked herself to the Gamergate movement, which opposes women’s suffrage and once described homosexuality as a “birth defect”.
With that track record, he instead turned to Utah-based Ohana Capital Financial, a business aimed at customers who had a hard time making money elsewhere.
As Ohana’s promotional materials put it, according to prosecutors, the company offered “the bank [to] cannot bank. On November 5, 2020, Beale transferred $1 million to Ohana as an escrow for future film funding.
Ohana is the creation of James Wolfgramm, a self-proclaimed crypto billionaire who has posted pictures of his alleged sports cars on social media. But in fact, according to a federal indictment filed last month, Wolfgramm’s wealth was a sham. For example, sports car images are taken from other websites. According to prosecutors, Wolfgramm’s business also sold what were advertised as high-tech crypto mining rigs – but they were also just a hoax, with their screens running on a loop. to create my illusion.
The indictment alleges that Beale and his supporters were unaware that Wolfgramm was in debt to one of his business’s other customers. That customer paid Ohana more than $4 million in September 2020, months after the Covid-19 pandemic, as part of a payment to a Chinese manufacturer of personal protective equipment. Prosecutors allege that instead of making the transaction, Wolfgramm spent millions of dollars on his own unrelated business affairs.
Now with seven numbers in the hole and no PPE to show for it, Wolfgramm allegedly used Rebel’s Run money to buy Chinese medical equipment. Soon after, according to a video Beale released to fans, the blogger and his collaborators became suspicious and contacted the FBI, sparking an investigation into Wolfgramm.
Wolfgramm’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment. Beale declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.
Wolfgramm now faces four counts of electricity fraud Rebel’s Run money and other aspects of your business. While the film’s investors may one day recoup some of their money through the legal system, Beale has given up on funding his superhero movie.
Beale claimed, without evidence, that the alleged scammer was made to disrupt his right-wing fan base.
“I really doubt that this whole thing is a deliberate operation to disrupt our community,” Beale said in a video he published last week.
However, Beale hasn’t finished filming yet. In a video sent to his fans, he tells them that he is working on a script starring his friend, a former protestant comedian. Owen Benjamin. In this new movie, Beale plans to choose Benjamin – who believes the moon landing was a fake – as the head of NASA.
