New Alex Cox script details 1930s U.S. invasion plans

From Atlantic Free Press: Start by discussing "regime change." Use economic sanctions to soften up the enemy, followed by the concoction of a suitable pretext for "defensive" military action. After a spectacular assault on the capital city, hand over the government to local collaborators, with an American-trained "national army" to keep the populace in line.

Ring any bells? That's right, it's the scenario laid out in veteran screenwriter-director Alex Cox's yet-to-be-filmed documentary, Our War Against Canada. Only it's the plan for the invasion of Mexico, drawn up in the 1930s and signed-off on by F.D.R. himself. The plan for Canada was even grander.

Whether Cox's film ever gets funded remains to be seen, though something tells us its section on American corporate ties to Nazi Germany won't help. And then there's Cox himself. "Paul Lewis, who was Dennis Hopper's producer, said that films should be punishment inflicted on people looking to be entertained," notes the splendidly intractable iconoclast. "I subscribe to that philosophy."

 

$4-million to write a screenplay? That's nothing . . .

From Defamer.com: The schadenfreude has been thick in the air ever since it was announced that Akiva Goldsman's $4-million deal to adapt Angels and Demons makes him the highest-paid screenwriter ever. Relax, snivelling little weasels. Slashfilm says it's not true.