The timing of this movie is the most important piece of the story. Hollywood is busy, busy, busy working for “their girl”, Hillary.
Yep, they are working for Hillary.
The movie was shot mostly in 05, with pre-production and planning usually starting two or more years before that.
It doesn't seem likely that anybody could have foreseen in 2002 or 2003 that an anti-Mormon movie released in 2007 would be helpful to Hilary's candidacy.
I don't doubt Hollywood would do anything it could to help her, I just doubt this movie's timing is an example.
That's a tempting conclusion to draw, but was it widely known that Mitt Romney was going to be a presidential candidate when the movie was greenlighted?
All three of you, Khnyny, tanty & resty have commented on the suspicious delayed release of the film.
I think the bigger question is the suspicious delayed release of a LDS/Salt Lake City HQ release of a book about the MMM!!! Three historian/academic type researcher-authors were given recent access to many LDS church archives, etc. on the matter & were given approval by LDS HQ to come out with a 2007 book on the MMM.
Wanna explain why if a movie about MMM delayed one year is suspicious but a LDS HQ approved book about MMM (a decision postponed for who knows how many years?) is ho-hum to you? If you can publicly question the motivations of the timing of the movie's release, then please show some consistency and open question the LDS HQ in SLC about why the delay to open up its archives to this issue!!!
A similar question is the "suspicious" absence of full-length movies made by LDS on this matter. LDS have done full-length movies on historical figures like Joseph Smith, etc.; but why the wait to address other historical figures like John D. Lee, LDS' militia, and the latter days of Brigham Young as governor? So Young's "crisis" situations as governor are 100% irrelevant to LDS film-makers?