A Heritage Foundation article reports on the source of funding for Matt Damon's latest anti-anything-American film which, this time, condems the oil industry.
"Matt Damon's 'Promised Land' Condemns Fracking, Funded by Arab Royalty
A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas
producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural
American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed
in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates."
It's sorta like the American Dental
Association funding a movie showing the horrors of fluoridated water.
Adding insult to inury, according to Phelim McAleer of The New York Post, the film's script had to be altered after some inconvenient facts got in the way (bold added):
"...'Promised Land' was about fracking and now I can reveal that the
script’s seen some very hasty rewriting because of real-world evidence
that anti-fracking activists may be the true villains.
In courtroom after courtroom, it has been proved that anti-fracking activists have been guilty of fraud or misrepresentation.
...So, according to sources close to the movie, they’ve come up with a
solution — suggest that anti-fracking fraudsters are really secret
agents employed by the fossil-fuel industry to discredit the
environmental movement.
In the revised script, Damon exposes
Krasinski as a fraud — only to realize that Krasinski’s character is
working deep undercover for the oil industry to smear fracking
opponents."