The film unveils surprises related to his politics, who forced his resignation, and some previously unknown details about his pardon by President Trump.
âFlynnâDeliver the Truth. Whatever the Cost,â premiered to a full house at the Community Center in Venice, Florida on April 5.
The documentary explores the life of Gen. Michael Flynn, from his rise through the ranks during his 33-year career in the United States Army to the years of political persecution he faced after exposing government corruption and being forced to resign as national security advisor to President Trump.
The film features Tucker Carlson, journalist Lee Smith, former U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and several members of Gen. Flynnâs family including his wife Lori, brothers, sisters, and his son.
The movie also reveals several surprises related to his politics, the players involved in forcing his resignation, and some previously unknown facts about his eventual pardon from President Trump.
The film, which is two hours and seven minutes long, elicited multiple cheers from the audience during the showing.
Scott Wiper is the creative producer of the film, which he said took about 14 months to complete.
Mr. Wiper is best known for action movies, such as âThe Big Ugly,â âA Better Way to Die,â and âThe Condemned.â
âI had never made a documentary,â he told The Epoch Times. âI did action films, and I was a screenwriter, and Iâm always trying to get things into scripts that mean something, that matter.
âThereâs a difference between an action movie with Bruce Willis and a documentary about something real, and the Flynn story is very real, very heavy.â
As an action filmmaker, Mr. Wiper, 53, said the whole concept of doing a documentary was unexpected.
âIt was like building an airplane while we were flying.â
The challenge was to distill Gen. Flynnâs long, colorful life story into a two-hour film.
âStorytelling is the art of omission,â he said, explaining that âyou take 10,000 bits of information and figure out which 249 bits will tell the story.â
What makes Gen. Flynnâs story fascinating, he said, was that âit wasnât a sound bite.â
Legacy media ran headlines like âGeneral Flynn pleads guilty,â or âGeneral Flynn receives a pardon,â Mr. Wiper said, but they still leave out the two years in between and the fact that the Department of Justice dropped the charges.

âCorporate media has had their chance to tell this story through thousands of hours of coverage,â he noted. âNow General Flynn and his family deserve to have this story told, and itâs the truth.â
Aside from portraying what he calls the judicial persecution of Gen. Flynn, Mr. Wiper said, he âwas searching for humanity.â
âYou can get so deep into the judicial process, the military, and lawfare. But I was looking for the universal story about love, family, sacrifice, and pain,â he said. âThereâs a lot of suffering but thereâs light at the end of the tunnel.â
Mr. Wiper said the most difficult part of telling Gen. Flynnâs story was keeping it to two hours.
âThe story finds you,â he said. âYou begin with something in your head, and you become very stubborn. But then you surrender and the story pops.â
Asked what he hopes people will take away from the movie, he used a single word:
âTruth.â

In an exclusive interview before the premiere, the general shared what he considers to be the most life-changing highlights of his career, the people he served with in the military, and helping Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016.
âThere have been some tough moments when youâre dealing with families that have suffered a loss, primarily their husbands,â he reflected. âFamilies that suffer a loss are always a difficult thing. But then you have the up moments where you helped somebody win the presidency of the United States. Thatâs pretty cool.â
Asked about great challenges, he responded, âWar. Definitely. The wars weâve been involved in have been unnecessary.â
Then came a day he realized âjust how deeply corrupted our government has become.â

Because of what he calls an absence of strong American leadership, Gen. Flynn said he believes a shift is coming.
âI think thereâs a global alliance forming against the United States of America and that global alliance is an alliance of strange bedpartners,â he said.
âIt will be difficult to defeat unless the people of the United States of America realize it exists.â
âIt starts with economics, and it ends with war, and I donât know if our current administration is capable or competent enough to stand on the moral high ground where we always thought America was. We have fallen off of that moral high ground.
âAnd when America falls off that moral high ground thatâs a huge shift. Thatâs what I believe.â
Asked who was the inspiration behind his agreeing to appear in the movie, Gen. Flynn credited his wife and the American people.

He spoke of the letters he received from Americans as his world crumbled around him. There were âupwards of 100,000â letters, he said, noting that he would read them to his wife.
Some moved them to tears. He kept them all.
What struck him hardest in reading the letters was the extreme level of distrust that his fellow Americans have in their government.
âI mean, a lot of people in this country are in fear of it, which is not a healthy thing,â he said.
âTo have a healthy society you donât want to have people in fear of their government, and we do have that right now, whether the White House wants to admit it, we have that sentiment right now.
âMost people want hope. Most people want to know that theyâre not alone and most people want to know there are leaders among us that are willing to step on that platform and say âstand with me and we will be okay.â
âThat to me is probably the greatest inspiration that made me do this film.â
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