How a Jim Caviezel film got mixed up in a Brazilian political scandal
Key takeaways
- But this week that production was entangled in a scandal rocking the very establishment it meant to denounce.
- The senator described a contract with Vorcaro to support the film, but said the deal was not connected with the fraud investigation into Vorcaro being conducted by Brazil’s Federal Police.
- “What happened was a son seeking private sponsorship for a private film about his own father’s story,” the senator said in a statement, adding that he met the banker before news of the investigation broke.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize American actor Jim Caviezel’s upcoming feature “Dark Horse,” a biopic about former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has been billed by a movie industry publication as a thriller about the far-right firebrand’s battle “against a corrupt establishment.”
But this week that production was entangled in a scandal rocking the very establishment it meant to denounce.
Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the former president’s son and chosen successor to compete in this year’s presidential elections, confirmed on Wednesday that he had lined up funding for the film from disgraced banker Daniel Vorcaro, who was arrested in March on suspicion of leading a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme.