Salena Zito stands proud like a sore thumb amongst Legacy Media journalists.
The Pennsylvania scribe doesn’t keep huddled in her workplace, faraway from her readers. She’s a shoe-leather reporter who meets the very individuals she covers for a dwelling.
Her reportage displays that back-and-forth method. How … refreshing.
The Washington Examiner scribe was toes away from former and future President Donald Trump a yr in the past in Butler, Pa. when bullets sliced by the summer season skies. Trump supporter Corey Comperatore died within the melee, whereas a bullet clipped the presidential candidate’s ear.
Zito wrote a strong guide primarily based on these July 13, 2024 occasions known as “Butler,” launched on the one-year anniversary of the assassination try.
Now, she’s teamed with Pensé Productions to carry the guide to the massive display.
BREAKING: @ZitoSalena publicizes they’re turning her guide ‘Butler’ on the Trump tried assassination right into a film pic.twitter.com/5jwM9wzpMN
— The Sean Spicer Present (@seanspicershow) July 16, 2025
The Occasions says the movie will cowl Zito’s profession in addition to the occasions of that fateful day in Butler.
“[Pensé Productions] requested to see an early copy of the guide. They had been ,” Zito instructed discuss present host Sean Spicer this week. “This was a extremely pivotal second in historical past.”
The corporate’s “About” web page suggests it’s a comfortable match for the fabric in query.
Pensé Productions believes {that a} vastly underserved market exists for movie and tv initiatives that problem the Hollywood established order with storylines that present an ethical to the story with out moralizing. Hollywood, and more and more Silicon Valley, management the content material that shapes our tradition. Worldviews held by the media and know-how elite are shockingly uniform, with conventional ideas of liberty changed by license, freedom changed by dependency, and spiritual ideas dismissed.
Zito instructed Spicer that President Trump, to her information, was unaware of the movie venture.
It’s not the one Trump-related movie heading our method. An upcoming documentary specializing in First Woman Melania Trump might hit theaters by the Fall. The Prime Video characteristic is directed by Brett Ratner, most well-known for the “Rush Hour” movie trilogy.
One other venture, introduced in Could, guarantees a extra optimistic take a look at the chief’s colourful life and profession. That’s in stark distinction to “The Apprentice,” the 2024 business dud that relentlessly attacked Trump throughout his rise to actual property energy within the Nineteen Eighties.