![]() ![]() ![]() However, after the film’s producer, Eduardo Verástegui, met Ballard, the project came to center on the time that Ballard spent deployed as an undercover operative for the U.S. The resulting script, originally titled Mogul, was "purely fictionalized," he said. After watching a network news segment on child sex trafficking, Monteverde said he was inspired to start writing a screenplay on the subject. "It’s not about politics.”Īccording to the filmmaker, he began the project that became Sound of Freedom in 2015, two years before QAnon emerged. “Anybody who watches this film knows that this film is not about conspiracy theories," Angel CEO Neal Harmon said in an interview. The film's distributor, Angel Studios, has denied that Sound of Freedom is political or connected to QAnon. These associations have been perpetuated by both Ballard and his on-screen counterpart, Jim Caviezel, who has been a prominent supporter of QAnon for years. Since its release on July 4, it's raked in over $180 million at the domestic box office, outperforming big-budget features like Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and making it the highest-grossing indie film since 2019’s Parasite.īilled as a story about the real-life Tim Ballard, a former special agent for the Department of Homeland Security and founder of the anti-trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), Sound of Freedom has become mired in controversy over criticisms that it features misleading depictions of child exploitation and plays into right-wing conspiracy theories associated with the QAnon movement. federal agent who goes rogue on a mission to rescue children in Latin America from sex trafficking. Amid the hype over the cinematic double whammy of "Barbenheimer", another movie has crept up in the box office rankings this summer: Sound of Freedom.ĭirected and co-written by Alejandro Monteverde, Sound of Freedom is a low-budget action thriller about a U.S. ![]()
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