The knee-jerk reaction was, What is going on with the Americans?
Its obviously not my fight.
The self-described political dirty trickster groomed Trump as a potential political candidate for decades.
Roger Stone in ‘A Storm Foretold’Abramorama/Guldbrandsen Film
To get in with Stone, Guldbrandsen says all he had to do was ask.
By 2018 the director was in Florida where Stone lives, observing the man up close.
He was there during Stone speeches and meetings with like-minded (mostly white, inevitably) Trump die-hards.
DirectorChristoffer GuldbrandsenCPH:DOX
And I think thats where it gets very disturbing.
Guldbrandsen says he will work on an alternative plan for the American debut).
I have never experienced anything as cynical as that.
Crestfallen, the filmmaker went back home to Denmark, the documentary project apparently moribund.
Shortly thereafter, while at a gym, he suffered a near fatal heart attack.
A doctor who happened to be working out at the same time performed CPR on Guldbrandsen.
With the help of a defibrillator, he was resuscitated.
His medical team would attribute the heart attack to stress brought on by the Stone project.
Stone, in the meantime, faced stressors of his own.
Trump later handed him a full pardon.
Stones other documentary project withered away, and he let Guldbrandsen back in.
When that happens, the key thing to do is to claim victory.
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
He also captured Stone saying (in jest?
), Fuck the voting, lets get right to the violence.
Well have to start smashing pumpkins if you know what I mean.
Few if any documentary filmmakers have ever found their work incorporated into such a momentous governmental investigation.
We were subpoenaed by the January 6th committee.
I started out in journalism and then I ended up in making films.
I think whats going on in America and what the film observes and describes is actually nonpartisan.
I have no opinions about Republican policies or Democrat policies.
Trump faces four felony charges in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection.
[Stone] was the link between the Proud Boys and the White House and Trump, Guldbrandsen asserts.
Does Stone merit indictment?
I didnt make this film for him to be charged, Guldbrandsen says.
A deal for U.S. distribution ofA Storm Foretoldremains a work in progress.
With Trump running again for president in 2024, the film could not be more timely or important.
