Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein announced Wednesday that he is teaming up with Meryl Streep to make a feature film he hopes will make the NRA “wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them.”
Weinstein announced the film on Howard Stern’s radio show Wednesday, stating that it will be a feature film, not a documentary, and declaring that guns are unnecessary for self-protection in America (though he believes they are in other countries) and that “the NRA is a disaster area.”
I shouldn’t say this, but I’ll tell it to you, Howard. I’m going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we’re going to take this head-on. And they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them.
When Stern pointed out that Weinstein’s anti-gun stance conflicted with other projects he’s produced, particularly a project he mentioned earlier that focused on Jews who used guns to defend themselves in the Holocaust, Weinstein countered that he only supported using guns that were not privately owned and in genocidal situations.
But of course Inglorious Basterds is not the only film produced by Weinstein glorifying gun use. The list of films the Weinstein Company has produced and/or distributed is riddled with gun-glorifying movies, most of which are privately-owned and not used for anti-genocidal purposes.
As The Washington Times’ Emily Miller reports, Weinstein is a major Democratic fundraiser, collecting more than $500,000 from his Hollywood associates for Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.



