Jim Caviezel Claims 'Sound of Freedom' Movie Is Not Tied to QAnon, Experts Think Otherwise
Jim Caviezel stars in the new movie Sound of Freedom, which has been a surprise mega-hit at the box office this summer.
The film was released on July 4 and has already grossed $85.7 million in its first 13 days of release. The movie, based on Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard, tells the “story of a former government agent turned vigilante who embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue hundreds of children from sex traffickers.”
Jim, Tim, and the film have all been tied to the QAnon conspiracy theories, which they have denied.
During a July 11 chat with right-wing media figure Charlie Kirk, Jim addressed the claims that he and the film are “QAnon adjacent.”
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“Now, by way of analogy, if I were the apostle Saul (Paul) and I’m a Pharisee, I’m going to go after the Christians and take them down. Now, let’s remove Christians and make it QAnon, I’m going to destroy them because the Romans told me they are evil. I’m going to destroy them because my own church staff, my fellow Pharisees said evil… well, I’m going to take them out,” he said. “Then you find out it’s not QAnon, there’s Q and anons. And Q puts out a question and you are not allowed to ask questions anymore—not allowed to—and the anons, they look it all up and they start looking and investigating that stuff.”
“I never knew about them while I was doing this movie Sound of Freedom, it has nothing to do with our film,” Jim added. “But it’s really interesting that they pointed to this immediately and said ‘That guy’s one of them, he’s bad.’”
Well, the comments aren’t sitting well with QAnon experts.
Expert Mike Rothschild told Newsweek, “Caviezel‘s comment is 100 percent what a Q believer would say, the cliche of ‘there is no QAnon only anons’ is a constant comment of people in the movement, a way to convince outsiders you aren’t part of Q while being part of Q. Believers are invested in the movie because they see it as a way to fight back against both the evildoers behind the supposed trafficking and the liberal machine that protects them. They don’t have any problem with both hating Hollywood and supporting it through ticket sales. I definitely think there’s a resurgence of both talking about Q and right-wing thought leaders disavowing it.”
QAnon believers have spread the adrenochrome conspiracy theory, in which people claim that elites in the world, specifically those in Hollywood and politics, organized a child sex trafficking ring to drain the blood of children and harvest the chemical adrenochrome. They believe that the adrenaline from young children will keep people young.
There has been more controversy surrounding the movie due to moviegoers who claimed AMC Theatres was trying to suppress screenings in its theaters, but both AMC and the film’s production company Angel Studios have denied this.