[NOTE: This is an amended version of my earlier post. The original contained a very basic error. The article I discuss below was published by Entertainment Weekly, and not E! News, as I originally wrote.]
Entertainment Weekly just published a puff piece about an upcoming movie starring Armie Hammer. (Credit to @switch_ga over at instagram for spotting it.)
The article: Watch Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer take on the opioid epidemic in exclusive Crisis trailer premiere
A couple of words on the upstanding citizens involved with this production:
Here is a picture of the director, Nicholas Jarecki, with close family friend Ghislaine Maxwell.
If you think I'm kidding about the "close family friend" part, check out sweet Nicky and his dad Henry in the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs.
Cozy!
(I'm too lazy to go through all 73 pages of the logs—the screenshot provided here comes from page 11. If you're curious about whether Nicholas Jarecki appears more than once in the manifests of the Lolita Express, you can consult one of the original court documents here. As AH would say, "Happy hunting!")
If you still think I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, consider the findings of an investigation commissioned by Harvard into Epstein's relationship with several skeezy (and potentially criminal) professors at the university.
The 2020 Harvard report revealed that, long after Epstein had been barred from campus and from making donations to a select group of professors, the dead pedophile continued to pour money into the coffers of his intellectual buddies. He hid this fact from the university by making the donations through his associate Leon Black, a hedge funder, and something called the Falconwood Foundation.
The Falconwood Foundation, it turns out, was, up until recently, the name of the Jarecki family charity. (The link is to a conservative organization, but the information provided is solid and clearly presented. I opted for this instead of linking to 990 tax forms.)
Okay, but most of the compromising material so far pertains to Nicholas Jarecki's dad, Henry. Sins of the father and all that. Is there anything else that's sketchy about the people involved in this movie?
Why, I'm so glad you asked!
Nicholas Jarecki's upcoming movie, Crisis, was financed by a man named Mohammed al Turki. His name keeps cropping up in blind items accusing him of being a pimp and a svengali.
Those are merely allegations. What is proven, though, is that al Turki was behind that obscene influencer junket to Saudi Arabia in December 2019. You know the one: the 'music festival' that served as a failed attempt to whitewash Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses—including the time Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman instructed his henchmen to dismember a journalist.
Speaking of dismemberment, I wonder what convinced golden boy Armie Hammer to sign up for the trip and post so glowingly about it on social media.
AH was so excited about traveling to the Saudi kingdom that he took his faithful crony Tyler Ramsey along for the ride. (The thing I love most about that picture, by the way, is it inadvertently reveals that the then-still-married Armie took off his wedding ring to go on a trip to the other side of a world mere days before Christmas. Dad of the year!)
Ed Westwick was there too. I wonder if he and Armie bonded over their alleged fondness for raping.
But anyway, back to Crisis, a movie conceptualized and directed by Nicholas Jarecki. It's not the first of Jarecki's projects to be financed by al Turki. That distinction probably goes to 2012's Arbitrage, which—fun fact!—guest-starred Nate Parker. It's quite the professional network we got here.
Parker, if you didn't know, would go on to direct Birth of a Nation, starring him and Armie Hammer. The director's career was on the up-and-up until it took a swift nosedive when revelations emerged that Parker and the movie's screenwriter, Jean Celestin, were once accused of gang-raping a young woman. The alleged victim eventually died by suicide. The real victim, however, was Armie Hammer, because this whole unfortunate situation meant he lost out on an Oscar nomination.
A few days ago, I left this comment on Nick Jarecki's insta. He promptly deleted it.
In case you're wondering what my mention of a title change (from Dreamland to Crisis) is in reference to, you can read all about how Nicholas Jarecki, cinematic auteur, stole his movie's subject matter and title from an award-winning book by the incomparable Sam Quinones. It seems Jarecki missed the day in film school where they taught students that you're supposed to purchase the movie rights from authors if you want to cash in on their work.
Quinones trolled Jarecki so hard on Twitter that the beleaguered director was forced to change the title. Now, it seems, Jarecki and his backers are trying as hard as possible to push their movie out into the world despite the Armie Hammer-shaped PR nightmare on their hands. Crisis is set for release February 26.
