Director of Melania doc was disgraced by #MeToo after Elliot Web page spoke out

Warning: This text accommodates dialogue of sexual harassment which some readers could discover distressing.

The director of Melania Trump’s $75,000,000 new documentary is well-known by many for being one of many key figures uncovered throughout the #MeToo motion, main him to be banished from Hollywood.

Referred to as Melania, the documentary is the second most costly ever (behind 2007 pure historical past documentary Earth). Nevertheless, regardless of a $35,000,000 advertising push from Amazon, Vue has admitted that their flagship London cinema bought just one ticket for one in all its first screenings.

Along with this, the movie’s South African distributor has introduced they’re pulling it from theatres over ‘latest developments’.

Many imagine the distributor are referencing an ongoing commerce struggle between the nation and the US over Trump’s factually incorrect claims there’s a ‘white genocide’ happening in opposition to white South Africans.

All of this noise across the documentary has distracted from a stunning growth: the return of Brett Ratner to Hollywood.



Ratner is a director greatest identified for the Rush Hour movies and directing X-Males: The Final Stand.

The American director and producer nevertheless was one of the high-profile names alongside Harvey Weinstein to be referred to as out by the #MeToo motion in 2017, which noticed a wave of Hollywood stars communicate out concerning the sexual harassment and rape that was prevalent within the business.

Ratner was accused by six ladies of sexual harassment, with Elliot Web page additionally talking out in opposition to the director, claiming that he sexually harassed him on the set of X-Males when Web page was solely 18.

One of many ladies who accused him of sexual harassment, Natasha Henstridge, additionally claimed that he had blocked her exit from a room earlier than ‘bodily forcing’ her to carry out oral intercourse on him.

She advised the LA Times: “He strong-armed me in an actual approach. He bodily pressured himself on me.”

Actor Olivia Munn spoke within the LA Instances expose, saying that when visiting the set of After the Sundown, Ratner masturbated in entrance of her.

He later falsely claimed on a TV present that he had ‘banged her’ after which boasted at a CAA celebration that he had ‘ejaculated on journal covers that includes her picture’.

Ratner denied the allegations, however his working cope with Warner Brothers was cancelled and he hasn’t directed something since 2015.

The indicators that Ratner was planning a return have been there nevertheless, significantly his cosying as much as the Trumps.

Late final 12 months, individuals had been shocked by the information that Trump was calling for Rush Hour 4 to launch, and much more shocked that it truly occurred.

Trump and Ratner have been pictured collectively way back to 2011 and, like Trump, Ratner was pictured within the Epstein recordsdata (although Home Democrats have been clear that being pictured within the recordsdata will not be themselves an indication of wrongdoing).

With Ratner’s subsequent transfer being to direct a fourth Rush Hour, he seems to be benefiting effectively from cosying as much as the Trumps after a decade within the chilly.

The director nevertheless has additionally come underneath flack for the way he acted on the set of the documentary, with one crew member telling Rolling Stone: “I really feel slightly bit uncomfortable with the propaganda ingredient of this, however Brett Ratner was the worst a part of engaged on this venture.”

They claimed crew members weren’t conscious of his half on the movie till days earlier than beginning, and wouldn’t have accepted in the event that they’d identified.

One other mentioned: “There was extra speak about Brett being slimy than there was about Melania.”

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