Emilia Jones is Reality Winner in Another Film About ‘Winner’ Trailer
by Alex Billington
August 29, 2024
Source: YouTube
“Reality Winner is just like us.” She is? Vertical has revealed an official trailer for a film called Winner, yet another film about the American whistleblower Reality Winner. This premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and will be out on VOD to watch this September. There were two other films about the same person recently: Reality starring Sydney Sweeney, and the feature doc Reality Winner. Now we have Winner to watch. What’s next, two more films called R. Winner and Reality W.? Yes we’ve heard her story, what’s next. Reality Winner, a brilliant, sarcastic young misfit from Texas with a relentless need for helping others, finds her morals challenged working as an NSA contractor, ultimately leaking Russia’s hacking campaign of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Emilia Jones (from CODA) stars as Reality, with Connie Britton, Danny Ramirez, Kathryn Newton, and Zach Galifianakis in the cast. This seems to look like a cheap, cheesy made-for-TV movie that would air as a Saturday Night Special. Oh well, it happens.
Here’s the official trailer for Susanna Fogel’s film Winner, direct from Vertical’s YouTube:
Based on a true story, Reality Winner (Emilia Jones) is a brilliant young misfit from a Texas border town who loves her pink gun almost as much as helping others. After teaching herself Arabic in high school so she can be of service in the Middle East, she is recruited by the Air Force but quickly becomes disillusioned when she finds her morals challenged. After transitioning to a money gig as an NSA contractor, Reality stumbles upon government secrets regarding Russia’s election hacking during the 2016 Presidential campaign. Does she expose the truth or keep quiet? Ultimately, she decides to leak the truth leading to her trial and historic sentencing for espionage. Winner is directed by American filmmaker Susanna Fogel, director of the films Life Partners, The Spy Who Dumped Me, and Cat Person previously, plus episodes of the series “Utopia”, “The Flight Attendant”, and “A Small Light”. The screenplay is written by Kerry Howley. Produced by Susanna Fogel, Scott Budnick, Julie Goldstein, Amanda Phillips, Shivani Rawat, Ameet Shukla. The film initially premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Vertical will debut Fogel’s Winner film in select US theaters + on VOD starting September 13th, 2024 this fall. Anyone interested?
 |
