Rachel Maddow is moving into the function documentary enterprise.
The MSNBC host has produced her first feature-length doc by way of her manufacturing banner Shock Inside, with the cable channel buying the undertaking. MSNBC will debut the movie subsequent month.
The movie, From Russia With Lev, chronicles the scheme that led to former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment. “It follows the a lot, a lot larger-than-life journey of Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-born hustler and former small-time mafia operator whose random, virtually unintentional affiliation with Trump and Trump legal professional Rudolph Giuliani took him around the globe, and in the end to jail,” per the logline.
The movie can have its world premiere on the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which is enjoying host to MSNBC’s Democracy 2024 occasion on Sept. 7. The premiere is likely one of the signature items of the occasion.
Billy Corben (Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami) directed the movie, with Maddow serving as EP. The movie was additionally produced in partnership with rakontur and Common Tv Different Studio.
“There ought to be extra documentaries from an insider’s perspective concerning the Trump presidency. There ought to be a Mike Pence documentary. There ought to be a John Kelly documentary, or a Rex Tillerson documentary. However it takes somebody like Lev Parnas to be courageous sufficient to talk up first,” says Maddow. “Lev’s story is un-put-down-able.”
“Lev Parnas’s story is like Tom Clancy if Jack Ryan was performed by Jackie Mason,” provides Corben. “This movie is a continuation of rakontur’s signature subgenre of ‘Florida Males Behaving Badly with World-Altering Geopolitical Stakes.’”
From Russia With Lev continues Maddow’s run as a multi-platform star for MSNBC.
Maddow in fact hosts her eponymous present on Monday nights, and seems commonly to cowl main information occasions. She additionally, nevertheless, hosts and produces a variety of podcasts for the corporate, together with Déjà Information, Extremely, and Bag Man. As well as, each Bag Man and Extremely are being developed for movie variations, by Steven Spielberg and Ben Stiller, respectively.