Conservative-Friendly Studio Under Fire for Actor’s Profane Anti-Trump Rant

'Everybody else should feel like I feel about the way things are and the abuses that are happening everywhere. ... This is my f*cking politics, dude. I would f*cking railroad these f*ckers...'

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(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A conservative-friendly studio faces backlash after the star of one of its soon-to-be-released feature films went on an unhinged, profanity-laced rant calling President Donald Trump a “rapist” and pedophile.

Utah-based Angel Studios, founded by four Mormon brothers in the Harmon family, was once touted as a viable alternative to Hollywood’s over-woke production studios.

It is set to release Runner, starring Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson, in theaters on Sept. 11.

While the thriller is not directly related to the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it follows a pattern, with Angel opting to use important calendar milestones to release films that will help to foster patriotic sentiment. The studio’s Young Washington, released on July 3, has grossed around $45 million, including nearly $20 million on its opening Independence Day weekend.

Angel first became a major cinematic contender with 2023’s Sound of Freedom, which grossed more than $250 million on a $14.5 million budget as conservatives, fed up with the incessant virtue-signaling in the movie industry, sought to send a decisive message to filmmakers.

“Founded by brothers who struggled to find films they could watch with their children, Angel was built on the belief that there was a global audience hungry for values-driven storytelling that amplifies light, celebrates hope, and inspires the moral imagination of viewers,” the company — which went public last year — said in a press release announcing its Q2 earnings.

Unfortunately for the studio, Runner star Alan Ritchson failed to get the memo.

Ritchson, who also stars in the Amazon Prime series Reacher, was promoting another movie, Motor City, last week on entertainment writer Josh Horwitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast when he unleashed a stream of invectives — ironically, while trying to convince people that he was mentally stable.

“People, I think, are a little afraid of me because they’re like ‘He’s a loose cannon,’ and I am not,” Ritchson claimed, according to Breitbart.

“I’m just saying the sh*t that everybody should say if they give a sh*t about humanity,” he continued. “Everybody else should feel like I feel about the way things are and the abuses that are happening everywhere.”

From there, Ritchson launched into a diatribe about the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Democrats — who were mum about the topic for the duration of Joe Biden’s presidency — have continued to carp on lately, even after the Justice Department published more than 3.5 million pages to a searchable database in January.

“Where are they? It’s a f*cking law, b*tch, show it. You f*cking pedophiles,” Ritchson said.

“I shouldn’t say f*ck because I’m a Christian,” he continued. “ … This is my f*cking politics, dude. I would f*cking railroad these f*ckers.”

Ritchson then suggested he would try to get the files himself, while spewing libelous attacks on Trump.

“These f*cking rapists,” he said. “That b*tch has the keys to the nuclear codes. He’s like all up into 13-year-olds. Like, dude, what? Go to jail.”

While the released Epstein files revealed some correspondence between Trump and the late pedophile financier — with documents suggesting that Trump, as a private citizen, may have been aware of some of Epstein’s more questionable proclivities — there is no evidence that Trump regularly socialized with Epstein as did former President Bill Clinton, billionaires Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman, or England’s former Prince Andrew, to name a few well-documented clients.

In fact, some — including House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. — have speculated that after Trump banned Epstein from visiting his Mar-a-Lago resort, the future Republican leader may have acted as an FBI informant against him.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt subsequently denied those claims.

Trump forced a $16 million libel settlement with ABC News in 2024, following a false statement from correspondent George Stephanopoulos, who maliciously claimed Trump had been convicted of rape as part of a civil suit brought by notorious rape accuser E. Jean Carroll.

A New York jury found Trump guilty of “sex assault” — a substantially lesser offense, with a much lower burden of proof — based on Carroll’s hazy, inconsistency-ridden claims of a sexual encounter in a department store fitting room several decades ago. The Manhattan socialite and magazine columnist would have been in her 50s at the time she claimed the incident occurred.

Ritchson has invited controversy in the past, including serious questions about his purported Christian views.

A March 22 incident caught on camera showed the hotheaded actor pummeling his neighbor in Brentwood, Tenn., following a dispute over Ritchson riding a motorcycle in the neighborhood.

Ritchson later credited God with inspiring him to wear a body camera, which he said helped clear him of criminal charges by showing he acted in self-defense.

“If anything makes you go, ‘Maybe God is real’ it’s [that],” he said on the “Armchair Expert” podcast with actor Dax Shephard, as reported by the Daily Mail.

“The cops came to arrest me that day and only had [a tape from a neighbor] to go off of,” he continued. “… Like, thank God. It was a gift from God, I think, that I had that premonition or that intuition that I put it on.”

Following Ritchson’s latest incident, some speculated that his outspoken, controversial views could cause Runner to bomb at the box office.

Angel Studios elicited its own controversy earlier this year over the release of Animal Farm, a children’s version of the dystopian George Orwell allegory that allegedly flipped its cautionary tale about communism into anti-capitalist propaganda.

The movie featured the voices of several celebrities known for bashing Trump, and it was the passion project of Andy Serkis, the writer/director/actor famous for his portrayal of “Gollum” in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, who previously attacked Trump on the Stephen Colbert show.

Animal Farm wound up bombing at the box-office, with a $35 million production budget that was only able to recoup around $6 million in ticket sales.

Headline USA reached out to Angel Studios for comment on the Alan Ritchson incident but had received no word back at press time.

Ben Sellers is a freelance writer and former editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/realbensellers.

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