A Daily Beast Exclusive
By Asawin Suebsaeng
More than a decade before Stephen K. Bannon became one of President Donald Trump’s
closest White House aides, he tried to make an epic documentary-style
film about the eugenics movement, Adolf Hitler, “blood purity,”
abortion, contraception, Darwinism, mutants, and cloning. According to
his longtime Hollywood writing partner, Bannon even met with
controversial Oscar winner Mel Gibson in his effort to get the picture made.
The 11-page outline for Bannon’s unmade movie, a copy of which was reviewed by The Daily Beast, was written in the spring of 2005 and bears the ominous title The Singularity: Resistance Is Futile. (The project’s alternate working title: The Harvest of the Damned.)
The document, which credits Bannon as a writer, producer, and director, divides the movie into 22 segments spread across four sections. A heady, incomplete mix of science, history, religion, and politics, it sketches out a story in which mankind’s unquenchable thirst for knowledge and scientific advancement has led to horrific, fascist atrocities and forced sterilization, drawing a direct line between those atrocities and modern bio-technology.
The draft is unfinished, so it is unclear precisely what Bannon's full message and story arc were intended to be. But the theme that genetic and reproductive sciences has led to Nazi horrors and war crimes is a theme seen in a lot of conservative agitprop.
Essentially, Bannon’s is a
Christian right-friendly story of arrogant scientists trying to perfect
the human race at the expense of the natural order and God’s vision of
humanity.
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