Trump Rents Out Theater to Screen New Benghazi Movie ’13 Hours’

Chuck Logan wrote the film’s screenplay based on the book “13 Hours” by Mitchell Zuckoff, with Michael Bay behind the camera.

The GOP Republican candidate rented out a Des Moines movie theater for a Friday night showing of “13 Hours”, the Benghazi movie highly praised by Hillary Clinton critics, and invited his fans to swing by for a free flick.

The heroism here is embodied by those contractors, not the government employees who largely serve as nuisances and incompetent distractions.

The movie is set before and during the 2012 incident, when Islamic militants attacked the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi. The Washington Post tracked down the chief, identified only as “Bob”. “A lot of them usually involved screaming”, says Schreiber, chuckling. Bay’s film, somewhat uncharacteristically, doesn’t go to the extreme with this stuff. (The interview has been edited for length and clarity). But this is a nonpolitical movie.

Bay: How is it not political? I was there along with other members of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi, which Accuracy in Media established back in the summer of 2013.

The premiere was quite an event, with two hours of festivities prior to the start of the film.

Andrew Breitbart famously said “politics is downstream of culture”, which is the succinct answer to the not infrequent questions authors like myself get about why we’re taking up space on political news sites like Hot Air with posts about things like movies and video games.

Bay: Listen it was 13 hours, 13 hours. But his last movie, the atrocious Transformers: Age of Extinction, cast the Central Intelligence Agency as villains led by a paranoid Kelsey Grammer, working to undo American interests from the inside. It’s an F16 flight, its 50 minutes – flight time overhead is 30 minutes.

I had a chance to see the film at the world premiere at AT&T Stadium and the director, main actors, military veterans, and some of the real people portrayed in the film were in attendance. “I just put my foot in an ice bucket”. “I learned everything making this, everything that’s laid out in the book and everything that you see in the movie”. Furthermore, that’s something that screams of corporate greed at the highest level, and has to make one wonder if Michael Bay would try harder if it were easier to get his passion projects made. And this is a classic nightmare story. He makes you care- even though you don’t want to. They aren’t together very long before guns are drawn and it becomes clear they aren’t really welcomed in Benghazi, where guns and grenades are sold on the street like fresh produce at a farmer’s market. The movie is based on the eyewitness testimony of men and women who lived through the horrific ordeal.

AP: Was it important to leave out the name of Hillary Clinton? No one actually enjoys this, even if Michael Bay does present the chaos with bombastic Hollywood grandeur. I was telling their story on the ground from these guys’ point of view. Terrific ensemble acting. Great sound track and incredible cinematography which pulls you into the action and does not let you go.

The director has left his usual theatricality and love for computerized action at the door for “13 Hours”, creating a tense, immersive, and at times terrifying look at what it’s like when everyone seems against you and you have no idea who to trust. He is a film, TV, and sports enthusiast, and when he is not reviewing movies, Hayden works in film production. I’m a news junkie.