WASILLA, Alaska — A two-hour-long feature film authorized by Sarah Palin about her meteoric rise to fame is set to premiere in Iowa this summer, RealClearPolitics reported.
“The Undefeated” is the brainchild of conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon, who was asked by Palin to oversee the project after she saw his “Generation Zero” movie about the Tea Party movement.
“This film is a call to action for a campaign like 1976: Reagan vs. the establishment,” Bannon said about the ultra-secretive project with an estimated budget of $1 million.
“We shot on the weekends,” Bannon continued. “I did it with a handpicked crew of people I know and trust, and we were able to stay under the radar. The planning for the secrecy of this took many, many weeks.”
The former Alaska governor serves as narrator for the project, with a script largely taken from her memoir “Going Rogue.”
In the film, Bannon pieces together media footage and home video from Palin with interviews he conducted with key Palin allies from Alaska to tell the story of her rise from serving on the City Council in Wasilla, Alaska, to being the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008.
Palin is not interviewed in the film.
Though she has remained tight-lipped about her plans to run for president in 2012, the video is seen as prime campaign material.
The Tea Party favorite has already screened the movie and “thought it was great,” SarahPAC’s treasurer Tim Crawford told the political news website.
The film will premiere in Iowa in late June and will then be released in New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada, all early nominating states, before it is distributed in markets across the US.
Bannon intends to release two versions of the film, one that includes explicit anti-Palin references and a separate, edited version expected to receive a PG-13 rating.