Sean Penn To Direct Movie On Story Of January 6th Cop With Bradley Cooper

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https://deadline.com/2026/06/sean-penn-direct-bradley-cooper-january-6th-cop-warner-bros-1236957132/

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The currently untitled film will follow the early life of a cop who goes on to be caught up in the January 6th Capitol riots. Penn has scripted and will direct the movie, which has five-time Oscar nominated actor Bradley Cooper in talks to star in the lead role.

You'd figure that after One Battle After Another flopped at the box office Hollywood would pivot away from politically charged movies. Nope, make another Oscar-bait movie, win a bunch of awards even thought the movie stank, enjoy the smell of your own farts and keep on think that what you're doing is important.

The drama surrounding this movie getting made will be better than anything they put on screen.
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You'd figure that after [insert name of any of the dozens and dozens of political movies] flopped at the box office Hollywood would pivot away from politically charged movies
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iT wAs aN InSUrReCtIoN
AozorAg
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Sean Penn is gay.

Cooper is still trying to please his overlords by making up for playing Chris Kyle I guess.
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Sean Penn should know to NEVER go full ******.
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I always got the feeling that Penn is connected to or works with the government (Dems/CIA/DEA/FBI).. especially after he went to "interview" the narco guy that was subsequently captured.
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Just another lib dog-whistle.
You're from down South,
And when you open your mouth,
You always seem to put your foot there.
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Let me guess: it will come out mid-year 2028?
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This doesn't even sound interesting or entertaining. It will just be a political gaslighting hitjob.
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There are still enough rich liberals to continue to fund these propaganda pieces that lose money. I'd bet money they claim that Sicknick was killed by MAGA.
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Burrus86 said:

Sean Penn should know to NEVER go full ******.
It's been all down hill for that dip**** since he played Spicoli.


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I can't even conceptualize a way that they could possible make J6 into an entertaining movie.

The only people who enjoy this will be people who are so politically brainwashed.
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Logos Stick said:

There are still enough rich liberals to continue to fund these propaganda pieces that lose money. I'd bet money they claim that Sicknick was killed by MAGA.
Same bunch of tards that support loons like Beeto and Talafreeko.
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I wonder if he will cover the FBI plants, or Pelosi's confession, or how/if he will portray Ashli Babbitt's murder, or Trump quelling folks on Twitter before Twitter purged his comments on this and memory holing it?

Those are the only things I would be interested in and only from POV if he covers them.

But who am I kidding.
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Based on one of the real-life cops caught up in the Capitol attack, the project is understood to have buy-in from its subject, however their identity is being kept under wraps for now.

Nothing hinky about that, eh? My guess? Fanone. The tattooed former cop who went on a media tour about how brave he was that day. Most of his stories were bunk, of course and the video record doesn't show him as he claims he was in certain locations but whatever.
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aggiehawg said:

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Based on one of the real-life cops caught up in the Capitol attack, the project is understood to have buy-in from its subject, however their identity is being kept under wraps for now.

Nothing hinky about that, eh? My guess? Fanone. The tattooed former cop who went on a media tour about how brave he was that day. Most of his stories were bunk, of course and the video record doesn't show him as he claims he was in certain locations but whatever.

After reading this article's description of Fanone, and knowing Sean Penn is involved, I have a strong feeling your guess is going to be correct. You can tell this thing is going to sweep all the awards before they even film it since it literally checks every box:
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It may not turn out to be him, but Fanone's story is a compelling one. He served as a cop from 2001 until his retirement in 2021, and like Cooper has Italian heritage. A one-time Trump supporter, he joined the Capitol Police in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, but later fell out of love with the President. The divorced father of four daughters, who has faced relentless threats from political extremists, wrote a book called Hold The Line, in which he detailed multiple unlikely friendships, including with a Black transgender sex worker named Leslie, whom he brought to meet younger officers to foster understanding of the diverse communities they swore to protect, and with folk icon Joan Baez, stemming from a portrait she painted of him defending the Capitol.

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Voters don't care about January 6th
Casual Cynic
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samurai_science said:

Voters don't care about January 6th

Which is why Hollywood must make movies about it, to keep the memory alive.
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J.P. 03 said:

aggiehawg said:

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Based on one of the real-life cops caught up in the Capitol attack, the project is understood to have buy-in from its subject, however their identity is being kept under wraps for now.

Nothing hinky about that, eh? My guess? Fanone. The tattooed former cop who went on a media tour about how brave he was that day. Most of his stories were bunk, of course and the video record doesn't show him as he claims he was in certain locations but whatever.

After reading this article's description of Fanone, and knowing Sean Penn is involved, I have a strong feeling your guess is going to be correct. You can tell this thing is going to sweep all the awards before they even film it since it literally checks every box:
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It may not turn out to be him, but Fanone's story is a compelling one. He served as a cop from 2001 until his retirement in 2021, and like Cooper has Italian heritage. A one-time Trump supporter, he joined the Capitol Police in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, but later fell out of love with the President. The divorced father of four daughters, who has faced relentless threats from political extremists, wrote a book called Hold The Line, in which he detailed multiple unlikely friendships, including with a Black transgender sex worker named Leslie, whom he brought to meet younger officers to foster understanding of the diverse communities they swore to protect, and with folk icon Joan Baez, stemming from a portrait she painted of him defending the Capitol.



This has to be it. That has gayass Sean Penn's name written all over it.
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Burrus86 said:

Sean Penn should know to NEVER go full ******.
but when he does he gets nominated for an Oscar, so….

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lol. Good lord.

The only thing "compelling" about that is how utterly absurd it is.
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Propaganda is needed, dear Comrade Penn///Dem leaders
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I hope that Mel Gibson opens his new Jesus movie on the same weekend.
It takes a special kind of brainwashed useful idiot to politically defend government fraud, waste, and abuse.
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I guess he is off the global warming bs. When i worked for Salesforce, that dip**** would get on stage with Beniof and get worshipped by the audience for all the incredible work he is doing to save the planet.

He better be lawyered up, because once he edits what Trump said to make it look like Trump told everyone to go down to riot, he'll have a nice lawsuit on his front door.
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Burrus86 said:

Sean Penn should know to NEVER go full ******.

Uh, that's not acting on his part.
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Slicer97 said:

Burrus86 said:

Sean Penn should know to NEVER go full ******.

Uh, that's not acting on his part.
Dakota Fanning said he was extremely convincing in his role as Sam.
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Believe the Hollywood propaganda machine is going to fail miserably with this project
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I hope we find enough to execute Maduro, or at least put him away till dead. Then, Sean Penn could do a movie about his commie dictator buddy. One that has an actual happy ending.
"Green" is the new RED.
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Fanone sounds like your garden variety concerned moderate.

I'm sure he was a one-time supporter of Trump…back in The Apprentice days. Such phonies.
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Maybe he should make a movie about how they captured El Chapo.
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What do you expect from someone whose father was a communist?
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Huh. You would think they would wanna do the four months of BLM and antifa riots where 27 people were killed, over 700 police officers injured, cities and home burn. I mean, more drama, right? But no, they go for the 2 1/2 hour issue where there were a few people they got out of control and that was it. Gosh, just thinking this editing they're gonna have to do to not show all the people peacefully walking in there, but cherry picked a few incidents. And I'm sure they'll be about Nancy Pelosi's role completely.

And I'm sure they won't show Trump repeatedly asking for peaceful protests. You know they'll cut the end of the video off like the news media did.

And I guess they'll keep pushing a method five people were killed as a result of this when it had nothing to do with what happened that day.

Time to bury this cop with his false narrative.

I would've thought Bradley Cooper would be smarter than that. I know that Sean Penn is a piece of **** dumbass who's working with another dumbass.
I don’t get enough credit for the things I manage not to say.
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I'm sure this will be portrayed as if Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were mere child's stories. This was the darkest, most evil day in recorded history.
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TCTTTT will really like this movie....look for his review on the entertainment board...it will be a lot of fun to to read the million most threads coming soon...
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I assume it's not going to be about the officer who shot and killed the unarmed woman?
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