{"id":5079,"date":"2016-07-25T19:28:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T11:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/25\/louis-theroux-made-a-film-about-scientology-and-the-trailer-is-wacky\/"},"modified":"2016-07-25T19:28:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T11:28:48","slug":"louis-theroux-made-a-film-about-scientology-and-the-trailer-is-wacky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/25\/louis-theroux-made-a-film-about-scientology-and-the-trailer-is-wacky\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Theroux made a film about Scientology and the trailer is wacky"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fstory%2fthumbnail%2f15495%2fscreen_shot_2016-07-25_at_10.42.25_am\"<\/p>\n

\"Feed-tw\"<\/a>\"Feed-fb\"<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

Documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux is well-known for confronting the weird, the wacky and the controversial in his work, but in his first feature-length doc he takes on possibly his most ambitious topic yet: the elusive Church of Scientology.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n

SEE ALSO: Riveting documentary shows the noble backyard life of this Schipperke<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Made in collaboration with director John Dower and producer Simon Chinn, the film features several re-created scenes based on the accounts of former members, including former senior church official Mark Rathbun \u2014 a.k.a. the “baddest ass dude in Scientology.”<\/p>\n

Theroux failed to make contact with current head of the church, David Miscavige, and the trailer gives a sneak peek into some of the less-than-friendly encounters between the filmmakers and church members. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Uk<\/a>, Trailer<\/a>, Film<\/a>, Documentary<\/a>, and Scientology<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux is well-known for confronting the weird, the wacky and the controversial in his work, but in his first feature-length doc he takes on possibly his most ambitious topic yet: the elusive Church of Scientology.\u00a0 SEE ALSO: … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1288,858,3932,1973,760],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-documentary","tag-film","tag-scientology","tag-trailer","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}