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The Uncivil War
Anger brews over HBO and Channel 4's Brexit drama with Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch in Brexit: The Uncivil War
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Dear HBO - it’s a bit irresponsible to release a disaster movie when we’re still in the middle of the disaster.
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The U.K.#BrexitHBO
Anger is brewing following the first look at Benedict Cumberbatch in the forthcoming HBO and Channel 4 movie about Brexit.
Black Mirror director Toby Haynes has helmed the drama, which finds Cumberbatch playing Vote Leave campaign director and political strategist Dominic Cummings.
Cummings came under heavy criticism after he refused to appear in front of a Parliamentary inquiry into the use of fake news in the Vote Leave campaign.
It also stars Rory Kinnear as David Cameron’s former director of communications Craig Oliver, John Heffernan as Vote Leave strategist Matthew Elliott, Richard Goulding as Boris Johnson and Paul Ryan as Nigel Farage.
But the production has been blasted by some of the strongest voices in the Brexit debate.
Among them is journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who has broken numerous stories about the Brexit campaign’s links to the now shuttered data and political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which is under investigation for its role in the misuse of data on platforms like Facebook.
Cadwalladr tweeted: “F**k off @HBO. Imagine if we did this for Trump right now. You are literally interfering in our criminal justice system.
“You’re heroicising a man in contempt of parliament. We don’t know the facts still. Because he refuses to tell parliament. But this character with the ‘software’ is ****. The ‘physicists’ are still unknown. The work was not declared. Electoral commission refused to investigate.”
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“Everyone knows who won. But not everyone knows how.”
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, #BrexitHBO premieres January 19 on #HBO
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You’re heroicising a man in contempt of parliament. We don’t know the facts still. Because he refuses to tell parliament. But this character with the ‘software’ is ****. The ‘physicists’ are still unknown. The work was not declared. Electoral commission refused to investigate
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Carole Cadwalladr Retweeted HBO
I've deleted my tweets. I meant no criticism of James Graham. I'm just hugely frustrated by ongoing cover-up by govt & opposition. Fiction difficult in absence of basic facts. But seems film funded by Trump donor & Putin chum is closest we will get to a public inquiry, so enjoy
https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/anger-brews-hbo-channel-4s-brexit-drama-benedict-cumberbatch-112740844.html
Benedict Cumberbatch in Brexit: The Uncivil War
Scott Free
@shrimperbhoy
Dear HBO - it’s a bit irresponsible to release a disaster movie when we’re still in the middle of the disaster.
Regards,
The U.K.#BrexitHBO
Anger is brewing following the first look at Benedict Cumberbatch in the forthcoming HBO and Channel 4 movie about Brexit.
Black Mirror director Toby Haynes has helmed the drama, which finds Cumberbatch playing Vote Leave campaign director and political strategist Dominic Cummings.
Cummings came under heavy criticism after he refused to appear in front of a Parliamentary inquiry into the use of fake news in the Vote Leave campaign.
It also stars Rory Kinnear as David Cameron’s former director of communications Craig Oliver, John Heffernan as Vote Leave strategist Matthew Elliott, Richard Goulding as Boris Johnson and Paul Ryan as Nigel Farage.
But the production has been blasted by some of the strongest voices in the Brexit debate.
Among them is journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who has broken numerous stories about the Brexit campaign’s links to the now shuttered data and political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which is under investigation for its role in the misuse of data on platforms like Facebook.
Cadwalladr tweeted: “F**k off @HBO. Imagine if we did this for Trump right now. You are literally interfering in our criminal justice system.
“You’re heroicising a man in contempt of parliament. We don’t know the facts still. Because he refuses to tell parliament. But this character with the ‘software’ is ****. The ‘physicists’ are still unknown. The work was not declared. Electoral commission refused to investigate.”
HBO
✔
@HBO
“Everyone knows who won. But not everyone knows how.”
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, #BrexitHBO premieres January 19 on #HBO
13.2K
6:00 PM - Dec 14, 2018
Carole Cadwalladr
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@carolecadwalla
Replying to @carolecadwalla
You’re heroicising a man in contempt of parliament. We don’t know the facts still. Because he refuses to tell parliament. But this character with the ‘software’ is ****. The ‘physicists’ are still unknown. The work was not declared. Electoral commission refused to investigate
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Carole Cadwalladr Retweeted HBO
I've deleted my tweets. I meant no criticism of James Graham. I'm just hugely frustrated by ongoing cover-up by govt & opposition. Fiction difficult in absence of basic facts. But seems film funded by Trump donor & Putin chum is closest we will get to a public inquiry, so enjoy
https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/anger-brews-hbo-channel-4s-brexit-drama-benedict-cumberbatch-112740844.html
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Channel 4 has confirmed that the political drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch will air in the UK at 9pm on 7th January 2019.
Although I do feel we will be embarrassed about what we have done.
How did the British people come to vote to leave the European Union? A swathe of books have revealed all about the referendum campaign, and now James Graham – a playwright known for deftly tackling political themes – has woven much of this information into the television drama Brexit: The Uncivil War.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/brexit-uncivil-war-review-benedict-cumberbatch-gripping-watch/
Cummings was the campaign director of Vote Leave, and a maverick genius/charlatan/nutcase depending on who was describing him. Graham’s Channel 4 drama opts for the genius PoV, and who else to play an eccentric brainbox than Benedict Cumberbatch, who has rather cornered this particular market – although it’s doubtful whether Cumberbatch’s makeover here, including receding hairline and comb-over, will inspire the same febrile erotic fan-fiction as Sherlock.
Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/culture/brexit-movie-uncivil-war-review-channel-4-hbo-cumberbatch/
“Everyone knows who won but not everyone knows how”, Cumberbatch’s Cummings, sitting in the office cleaning cupboard at Vote Leave (his preferred thinking space) confides to camera, before we see further evidence of his unconventional methods as he conducts impromptu focus groups with strangers in the pub and scribbles pie charts on a whiteboard before having a Eureka moment with his motto: Take Back Control.
Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/culture/brexit-movie-uncivil-war-review-channel-4-hbo-cumberbatch/
Other than the fact that he’s played by Cumberbatch, the reason viewers might find themselves – reluctantly or otherwise – rooting for Cummings is that he’s the outsider, the insurgent fighting the establishment, rather like the bullion robbers in The Italian Job – and as Boris Johnson might have said afterwards: they were only supposed to blow the **** doors off. He’s also an outsider within the Leave camp itself, with the old guard of Eurosceptic grandees trying to get him sidelined, Cummings’s conviction that the campaign could be won through use of sophisticated computer databases (old hat, now, of course) being far too avant-garde for the Westminster old guard.
Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/culture/brexit-movie-uncivil-war-review-channel-4-hbo-cumberbatch/
https://inews.co.uk/culture/brexit-movie-uncivil-war-review-channel-4-hbo-cumberbatch/
'UK can't stop Turkey joining EU' says Penny Mordaunt - BBC News
Defence Minister and Vote Leave supporter Penny Mordaunt has denied the UK would have a veto on any Turkish accession to the EU.
Speaking to Andrew Marr, she said: "I think with the current situation - the migrant crisis and other issues going on in Europe - we would be unable to stop it." The pro-Leave minister says the EU referendum is British voters' only chance to prevent that eventuality, adding again: "I don't think that the UK will be able to stop Turkey joining."
I don’t, as a rule, enjoy political dramas. Not because they’re busman’s holidays but because I tend to find them frustrating. The villainous characters – often but not always drawn from the political right – tend to either be buffoons or to explain their motivations with speeches that would be better left to a subpar children’s TV show.
The real life world of politics does tend to include more than its fair share of political decisions that I believe to be villainous with destructive consequences. But the people who do them don’t justify their decisions – even in private – with a cackle and a twirl of a moustache.
Stories fall flat when the bad guys’ words ring hollow.
That’s something that The Uncivil War itself acknowledges in its pivotal face-off between the two rival campaign chiefs – “Heat for policy wonks” as Graham dubs it – but I suspect that for many Remainers viewing, they’ll take from it the comforting truth that we lost because of a genius rather than events within our control.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/james-grahams-new-brexit-drama-only-adds-to-the-myth-of-the-political-genius/ar-BBRMirs?ocid=spartandhp
The Tories had clearly learned no lessons from the campaign, and adopted the same old tactics in the election that followed, when they lost their majority.