While Fox News has been very clear over the past few years about where its messaging stands when it comes to the urgency of climate change, the anchors of “The Big Saturday Show” felt they had to voice their alarm with the release of Neon. were given all new reasons to play. How to blow up a pipeline.
Featuring a story inspired by Andreas Malm’s 2021 nonfiction release of the same name, the indie feature comes from director Daniel Goldhaber, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ariella Barr and Jordan Szol. Acknowledging that he hasn’t seen the film himself — “I’ve seen the trailer and seen the trailer, parts of it” — Fox News co-host David Webb on Saturday panned the project as “left-wing Hollywood propaganda”. , while other panelists raised questions about the existence of climate change at all.
“Climate craziness is reaching a whole new level — there’s a new movie called ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline,’ and you guessed it: It’s climate activists sabotaging a Texas oil pipeline to stop production of that evil fossil fuel.” inspires us to do,” Webb said.
Malm’s book argues that property destruction is a valid form of activism in the fight for climate change reform. Goldhaber’s narrative adaptation takes those arguments and depicts a group of young activists fighting back against the climate crisis by planning to blow up an oil pipeline in West Texas. Neon acquired distribution rights for the feature outside the Toronto Film Festival in September.
Coming out of its first weekend in limited release, Indie has a 95% positive critical consensus rotten TomatoesAnd TheWrap’s chief film critic Tomaris Loughley called it a “Soderbergh-ian” film that “ignites an immediate sense of dynamism through a stellar ensemble cast and sophisticated direction.”
Still, Webb and fellow Fox News contributor Joy Jones are not supporting its release.
“Hollywood is now openly doing what it’s done for a really long time,” said Jones, himself a former Marine Corps bomb technician.
He added, “I think Hollywood is trying to bankrupt itself. I’m not sure. They’ve become so self-righteous in their cause that they don’t understand the business they’re in. And that’s okay.” Make movies about blowing up pipelines. Nobody’s going to watch it.
Fox Business anchor Cheryl Cassone, who also sat on Saturday’s panel, clipped a positive review from Rolling Stone, saying the publication is “really pushing, saying that violence is the way to deal with the climate problem.” is – if you believe there is one.”
“If you really want to do something about climate change, I think … go to Washington,” she said. “But blowing things up and ending up in jail? Sorry, not the plan.
Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe then expressed that even though “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” is fictional, she worries that younger generations may begin to take cues from its plot line.
“What worries me about this is, I mean, first of all, are we sure this is a fictional story? And second of all, Gen Z is the TikTok generation where they go to watch a video and from there they get to know their beliefs and Ideas come together. They are not a critically thinking generation,” Boothe said. “So I worry about being spoon-fed this kind of propaganda.”
Barrer stars in “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” alongside a young Hollywood ensemble, including Christine Froseth, Lucas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jamie Lawson, Marcus Scribner, Jake Weary, Irene Bedard and Olive Jane Loren .
Isa Mazzei, Goldhaber, Barrer, David Grove Churchill Wiste and Adam Wyatt Tate along with production company Chrono produced the feature, with Alex Black and Alex Hughes also serving as producers and Danielle Mandel as co-producer. Executive producing the project were John Rosenberg, Ricardo Madalasso, Lane, Goodluck, Sozol, Natalie Sellers and Eugene Kotlyarenko.
Watch Fox News’ “Big Saturday Show” segment in the video above.
“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” is now playing in select screens.
