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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConfirmed: The Director of Innocence of Muslims Is a Schlocky Softcore Porn Director Named Alan Robe
The anti-Islam film that's set off a firestorm in the Middle East was directed by a 65-year-old schlock director named Alan Roberts, we've confirmed. He's the creative vision behind softcore porn classics like The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood.
An Alan Roberts is listed as director on the film's casting calls and call sheets from the summer of 2011, back when it was innocuously called Desert Warriors. Castmembers and crew told us yesterday that Roberts was brought on by producer "Sam Bacile" aka Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, and he muddled his way through a disorganized three-month shoot.
This is the same Alan Roberts listed in IMDB as the director of a handful of softcore porn movies and other low-budget films, according to acquaintances we spoke to today.
"I am sure it was the same Alan Roberts, as I remember him speaking about this project," said filmmaker David A. Prior, a longtime acquaintance of Roberts, in an email. Roberts is listed as a producer on two of Prior's films, 2008's Zombie Wars and 2007's Lost at War.
"He did work on Innocence of Muslims," confirmed a man who was Roberts' business partner in a post-production facility he ran, who asked not to be named.
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cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)The story of the production as previously reported was that the initial diretctor, who was not named by the source out of decency, left the project and Nakoula Basseley Nakoula came in using the Sam Bacile pseudonym to finish it.
Since the serious anti-Muslim stuff was added after this guy left, according to previous reports, he's going to get a world of death threats for nothing.
randome
(34,845 posts)I'm sure he can be identified easily enough by anyone who wants to find out.
cali
(114,904 posts)hlthe2b
(102,281 posts)when that asshole Terry Jones was supposedly contacted to make sure he knew that he was supporting pornography. LOL
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Pick their asses up!
Hell, you could be hauled in for giving an officer flack, during a jay walking citation!
PICK...THEM...UP!
sendero
(28,552 posts)... that everyone involved in funding and making this bit of filth (that knew what the end result was going to be) will need to look over their shoulder for the rest of their life.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Which really says something
... it is a good thing. They are maggots and I don't care what happens to them. I suppose you think letting someone start a world war with their "free speech" is fine. that says a lot.
BarackTheVote
(938 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts).... there is plenty of indication that the actors hadn't a clue what this was. Couldn't blame them.
But there were at least several people who set out to do exactly what they did, and I really don't care about them, IMHO they are the worst kind of criminals.
BarackTheVote
(938 posts)is infuriating! That's a sacred trust, and anyone who violates it should be hung high. My opinion.