Summer Blockbuster? $1 Million Sarah Palin Biopic Could Be Campaign Kickoff

A full length film set to debut in June promises to catapult Sarah Palin into the center of the 2012 campaign conversation. According to Real Clear Politics’ Scott Conroy, the film–produced at a budget of one million dollars–was made by conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon at the request of Palin herself. The film’s aim, Conroy reports, is an effort at “laying to rest lingering questions about her controversial decision to resign from office with a year-and-a-half left in her first term,” issues that could cripple a run for the White House.

Real Clear Politics screened the documentary, and talked to the filmmaker, who said “this film is a call to action for a campaign like 1976: Reagan vs. the establishment,” said Bannon. “Let’s have a good old-fashioned brouhaha.”

Palin had no “editorial role” in the film’s production, but “facilitated access” for Bannon and his film crew to key Alaskan defenders:

The result is a two-hour-long, sweeping epic, a rough cut of which Bannon screened privately for Sarah and Todd Palin last Wednesday in Arizona, where Alaska’s most famous couple has been rumored to have purchased a new home. When it premieres in Iowa next month, the film is poised to serve as a galvanizing prelude to Palin’s prospective presidential campaign — an unconventional reintroduction to the nation that she and her political team have spent months eagerly anticipating, even as Beltway Republicans have largely concluded that she won’t run.

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