The Harvest Of The Damned
I wonder how Steve Bannon’s screenplay ends
The Daily Beast revealed this week that they’d gotten their hands on an 11-page outline for an unmade movie Steve Bannon was shopping around Hollywood in the spring of 2005. It’s entitled The Singularity: Resistance Is Futile, with an alternate working title of The Harvest of the Damned. Fun!
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The document lists Bannon as a writer, producer, and director of the would-be movie, and divides it into 22 segments the Beast describes as, “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.
The Beast focuses a lot on plot summary. Over the course of the film, scientists try to perfect the human race—but at what cost? (A: God’s natural order for the world.) Hot topics include “the Enlightenment, Christianity, English literature, physics, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and ‘incomprehensible social change’” and there’s a lot of Hitler material in there too. I highly recommend you check out the excerpts they have.
What really piqued my interest, though, is the fact that the outline has no ending. The second-to-last section of the movie is described as “post-humanity,” where “The New Immortals” seem to be “living happily… ever-after” in a society that touts “spare body parts for sale.” Exciting. Can’t wait to see what’s at the finish line for these people.
The final section, though, is much less detailed. It’s entitled “THE SINGULARITY,” and allots four-minutes for only the following description: NOVUS ORDO SECULORUM. It’s an apparent variant of the Latin motto we print beneath the pyramid on the American one-dollar bill, and translates to “New Order of the Ages.” Would be cool to know what that… entailed, Steve. Purely for art reasons. Not fear ones.
No one seems to be able to get a hold of Bannon for comment, though. His former writing partner confirmed that the project was “unfinished” and also said she can’t remember the contents of the outline, but something tells me they brainstormed some endings. And that their specifics—or at least their cultural overtones—may come up in conversation sometime over the next four (lol) years. It would be cool if we could look into them now.
Anyway, I have reached out to our president’s Chief Strategist for comment and will update this post as soon as he gets back to me:
@stephenbannon how would ur screenplay have ended?