Filmmaker Cullen Hoback (Q: Into the Storm) leads Mike and Ken on a fascinating — and frightening — trip down the QAnon rabbit hole as he attempts to unmask the identity of the conspiracy movement’s mysterious and mischievous leader, Q.
Focusing on 8chan, the internet site that Q calls home, Cullen locks in on founder Fredrick Brennan and former partners turned archrivals, Jim and Ron Watkins. Cullen’s mission goes from lark (or LARP, as the case may be) to full blown nightmare when Q’s followers descend on the Capitol and join in the Jan. 6th insurrection.
How did Cullen go from bootstrapping this series himself to pitching to Adam McKay (The Big Short) and landing the project at HBO? What’s it like to find neutral ground between your film’s main subjects who will stop at nothing to tear each other down? What do you do when one of your subjects calls in a panic from thousands of miles away and puts his life in your hands? Join us for all that and more, including an answer to the question, “What does the song White Rabbit have to do with all this, anyway?"
You can follow Cullen on twitter @cullenhoback
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Other Films by Cullen:
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Monster Camp
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King of Kong
American Movie
Q: Into the Storm
The Big Short
The Jinx
Robert Durst
LARPing
Edge Lord
Qanon Anonymous Podcast
Streisand effect
Dig!
Tiger King
”Rebel Hearts” with Pedro Kos
”The Bee Gees” with Mark Monroe
”Dick Johnson is Dead” with Kirsten (KJ) Johnson
”Tulsa Burning” with Marco Williams
”The Social Dilemma” with Jeff Orlowski
”Boys State” with Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss
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