‘The Script was Entertaining but very Sophmorish’ – FBI Deputy Director on The X-Files
In 1998 retired FBI deputy director Cartha DeLoach was asked by the producers of The X-Files to review the script...
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Why Did the Pentagon Support Godzilla and Transformers, but Rejected Jarhead?
The 2005 biographical war film Jarhead is one of a very small number of films set in the first Gulf...
How the Pentagon Rewrote Man of Steel
The Superman reboot Man of Steel launched the (now abandoned) DC Extended Universe, and put a much darker tinge on...
The Pentagon, Superman and the Freedom of Information Act
In 1977 the producers of Superman and Superman II approached the Pentagon to try to obtain stock footage of missiles...
Watergate, the Mark Felt Biopic and the FBI
In my latest article for Shadowproof I examine the FBI’s role in the Mark Felt biopic Mark Felt: The Man...
How the FBI Spied on and Rewrote the Torture Thriller Unthinkable
The 2010 thriller Unthinkable courted controversy by depicting the torture of a suspected terrorist who claims to have planted nuclear...
Don’t Shoot the Looters – Military Script Notes on Deep Impact
Deep Impact is one of a pair of twin films released in 1998 that were based around a giant meteor...
The Pentagon Worked on Every Major Military Movie for Over a Decade After WW2
The post-WW2 period was the zenith for military and war movies – over 200 were made in the 1950s, and...
Pentagon Contracts Show US Army Subsidized Production Of National Geographic’s ‘Long Road Home’
Production assistance agreements released by the Defense Department show the United States military used taxpayer money to subsidize part of...
‘Film contains Russian Mob content and it was confirmed okay’ – FBI emails on Little Mizz Innocent
Little Mizz Innocent has been languishing in development hell for several years as the ‘female Jason Bourne movie’ has struggled...