{"id":645483,"date":"2026-10-13T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645483\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:12:09","slug":"rob-lowe-james-franco-latest-actors-to-sign-on-to-a-daily-wire-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645483\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Lowe, James Franco latest actors to sign on to a Daily Wire movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a trailer posted on Tuesday on Daily Wire editor and loudly bigoted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/nick-offerman-ben-shapiro-bigotry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pop culture troll<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/wiki\/Ben_Shapiro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Shapiro<\/a>\u2018s Twitter\/X account, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/benshapiro\/status\/2110036503006974303\" rel=\"nofollow\">Confession<\/a>, the latest film from the right-wing media company\u2019s movie farm has attracted (or perhaps tricked) a truly surprising cast. The film appears to be a Cold War-era prison drama about an imprisoned professor (played by a disheveled Rob Lowe) enduring torture at the hands of a Soviet-era jailer (a smirking James Franco). Directed by Czech filmmaker V\u00e1clav Marhoul (2019\u2019s Jerzy Kosi\u0144ski adaptation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/at-three-grueling-hours-the-painted-bird-is-the-feel-b-1844394229\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Painted Bird<\/a>) and boasting the participation of \u201cscreenwriter Ben Shapiro\u201d himself, the trailer also features quick glimpses of a supporting cast about to see a search engine spike in \u201c[their name] + racist?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with Lowe and Franco, Nick Nolte, Brad Dourif, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Jennifer Jason Leigh\u2014three out of the four touted as Oscar nominees in the trailer\u2014join the list of celebrities whose participation in Daily Wire productions invite some serious scrutiny. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/daily-wire-propaganda-movie-montana-shut-down\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Recent filming controversies<\/a> surrounding the company\u2019s pro-ICE action flick Pawn Shop revealed that Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel, and Henry Thomas are listed among its cast, with Trejo\u2019s children subsequently claiming that their prolific 82-year-old father <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/danny-trejo-ben-shapiro-movie-pawn-shop-daily-wire-2000745308\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was tricked<\/a> into appearing in the rabidly anti-immigrant film. (Various crew members have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/daily-wire-ice-movie-crew-quits\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">walked off the production <\/a>of the low-budget movie once the Daily Wire\u2018s involvement came to light.)<\/p>\n<p>Franco\u2019s appearance in the film at least makes a certain sense, as previous fellow shunned-for-sexual-creepiness actors like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/run-hide-fight-infidels-trailer-jonathan-majors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Majors<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/armie-hammer-regrets-citizen-vigilante\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armie Hammer<\/a> have recently fled to the conservative fringes once mainstream offers dried up. Still, a cursory glance through the supporting cast\u2019s Wikipedia pages is no doubt underway, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/ben-shapiro-daily-wire-mike-richards-angel-studios\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shapiro\u2019s organization<\/a> routinely invites the sort of white supremacist, anti-LGBTQ+, misogynist, and otherwise hateful controversies most PR-conscious celebrities try to avoid.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a trailer posted on Tuesday on Daily Wire editor and loudly bigoted pop culture troll Ben&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-645483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}