Gina Carano, the former The Mandalorian star fired after a series of offensive tweets, is making a “comeback” in the new Western Terror On The Prairie…. so says Ben Shapiro’s media company The Daily Wire, which happens to be producing the movie.
Wait, a comeback? What is she returning to, exactly? More flat, uninteresting screen roles that define acting as “lifelessly glowering on camera”? Well, if the tepid trailer for Terror On The Prairie is any indication, that’s precisely what Carano is doing. You can see for yourself below, although it’s hardly worth the engagement:
Disney canceled her.
Hollywood left her for dead.
Now, the uncanceling of @ginacarano begins!Use code "TERROR" for 25% off memberships so you don't miss out on the premiere of #TerrorOnThePrairie at 8:30pm ET!
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— DW Entertainment (@DailyWireEnt) June 14, 2022
The film comes from director Michael Polish, and it tells the story of Hattie (Carano), a frontier woman who’s forced to defend her home and her family against a band of vengeance-seeking outlaws. Sounds straightforward enough—some might even call it boring—but you better believe Shapiro and The Daily Wire are talking it up like it’s the motion picture event of the summer. (It’s not.)
On the webpage for Terror On The Prairie, the right-wing media-outlet-turned-fledging-movie-studio touts, “Gina Carano is back. Disney canceled her. Now, the un-canceling begins.” She went from Star Wars, one of the biggest franchises in the galaxy, to a generic oater that’s only viewable to paid subscribers of a conservative streaming platform—that’s not a comeback, that’s a bellyflop right into the Sarlaac pit.
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This is Carano’s first project since she was fired from The Mandalorian by Disney and LucasFilm in early 2021 for countless “abhorrent” social media posts in which she mocked transgender people, Jews, and spread a number of QAnon theories about COVID-19, mask mandates, and voter fraud in the 2020 election. Infamously, she also took to Instagram stories, where she shared a post that appeared to compare being a Republican to living through the Holocaust.
did she just compare the holocaust to being a republican .. #FireGinaCarano pic.twitter.com/an3css7Kdr
— ?? (@djarinculture) February 10, 2021
The posts sparked a public outrage, prompting the #FireGinaCarano hashtag to trend, and Lucasfilm issued an official statement shortly thereafter, reading, “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” effectively squashing rumors that her character, galactic ranger Cara Dunne, would topline a Disney* spin[off series of her own. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
After also being dropped by her agency, UTA, Carano announced that she’d be partnering with The Daily Wire for her next project, which would eventually become Terror On The Prairie. Conservative press around the film proudly boasts it was filmed on-location in Montana, far away from “Hollywood,” where actors were not beholden to COVID-19 safety regulations, free to phone in uninspired performances without regular COVID testing or on-set mask mandates.
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Unsurprisingly, Carano’s co-stars are a number of forgotten actors who’ve only made headlines of late when they’ve decided to to spout far-right-wing talking points or pop off about the supposed loss of American values. There’s former Justified star Nick Searcy, who warns that leftists “have ruined the greatest country that has ever existed on the face of the earth.” The OC‘s Samaire Armstrong shows up, too, an actor who’s repeatedly shared her pro-Trump, anti-Black Lives Matter views while, ironically, decrying the end of free speech. Honestly, the whole cast is pretty bleak.
Gina Carano’s Terror On The Prairie is streaming now and, if you’re lucky, this is the last you’ll ever hear about it.
kish
She seems like the type that enjoys “hanging with the guys, doing guy things” and makes misogynistic comments about other women.
monty clift
she looks like a fella, probably overcompensating.
Andrew
Her statement about Jews is not untrue, but it just goes to disprove her point. The republicans have created the same climate of hate that Hitler did, so yes if you are aligned with these people then your political opinion is the problem.
jt1990
Of course she was telling the truth. That’s usually how one gets labeled a ‘bigot’ on Leftist news sites. Can’t figure out what was offensive about her statement either. I came here hoping for a real scandal, maybe a gay slur she used 20 years ago in middle school. I suppose being a bigot is easier than I imagined!
RyanMBecker
Jt1990,
Care to explain the logic to her analogy? Sure, it’s true that the Holocaust started with local antisemitism. But his exactly is that even remotely analogous to hating someone for their political — or bigoted — views? Are you really saying that hating the KKK is the same as hating Jews?
Here’s a clue for you: the Jews just wanted to be left alone. They had no desire to interfere with the lives of Christians, or anyone else. Indeed, the Jews were unjustifiably feared because they were so insular, given rise to rumors of secret cabals. Compare that with conservative political activists. They are trying enact laws that control our thoughts and private behavior — much of it, based on THEIR religious beliefs. Why should THEIR morality be forced onto me?
So there you have it. On the one hand, you had people that just wanted to be left alone. On the other hand, you have people who want to force their beliefs onto me. Which group deserves to be hated? Apparently, you agree with Carano that the two groups deserve equal treatment.
THINK about it.
RyanMBecker
jt1990,
“Of course she was telling the truth. That’s usually how one gets labeled a ‘bigot’ on Leftist news sites.”
Learn to read carefully. The article clearly said that she was being ostracized for numerous issues. Are you really so ignorant as to say that her claims of election fraud and COVID misinformation are “truth”? By publicly advocating those views, she wasn’t just ignorant, but irresponsible. They lead to insurrections and pandemics. In fact, her first movie project with Ben Shapiro’s was cancelled because the union refused to work with her for ignoring COVID precautions. As for the transphobia, she herself later apologized for previously mocking preferred pronouns.
Kangol2
Her statement about Jews in Nazi Germany is incorrect; she might do a bit more reading about
–anti-Semitism in Germany, its long history and spread, during the late 19th century in the völkisch movement and particularly after World War I, during the Weimar Republic,
–German popular resistance to it during the pre-Nazi years and after,
–the role of Hitler’s paramilitary forces before he maneuvered his way into power in 1933 and afterwards
–anti-Semitism =across the various Axis powers before World War II and Nazi policy in the numerous countries that Hitler’s military invaded and occupied all across Europe and north Africa, from Belgium to France to Romania to Greece, etc.
–and how the Holocaust was officially enacted and effected by the Nazi regime.
Moreover, it was the conservative parties–the right–in Germany, and Austria, which actively enabled the rise of the Nazis, thus making possible the Holocaust, and the Holocaust itself, as planned logistically at the Wannsee Conference, very was the direct result of Nazi officials and officers.
Andrew
I can only think that some of you people are looking for comments to insight yourselves or can’t read or maybe I am the one not understanding your reply. The German government promoted a climate of hate against Jew, gays and gypsies (I’m sure this is now a politically incorrect term). It is exactly what her political views are, promoting hate towards groups of people (African Americans, LGBTQ… , immigrants) All I am saying is that her statement is true and that her political views are hate speech, which is not protected. The only correction I would make to her statement would be that it was done by neighbors first and then by Nazis.
Max
did not know prairie women had full access to a weight room…
Thad
A few more guns might shorten this movie to, say, 4 minutes.
humble charlie
don’t expect great intelligence from actors. and don’t expect them to know things. she’s ignorant about a lot of things as are most people. she’ll say dumb and revolting things like most people. let her work. she’s been spanked.
rphillips4165
She’s trying to work in an industry where you can be fired for being to tall, to short, to anything. To work you have to prove you can get people to part with their money to see you. When you piss enough people off you are worthless in the industry. She pissed a lot of people off. If she doesn’t want to work in a popularity contest, she can get a 9 to 5 job.
BaltoSteve
Well, I can at least applaud them for the appropriate title, given their casting choices.
commonsens3
Clowns running a clown website, no wonder yall are so annoying ?