Jim Caviezel, Bolsonaro’s Escape from Brazil and a Controversial Biopic: What Happened?

As widely reported by the media in these hours, on the heels of the defeat in the Brazilian presidential elections, where Lula emerged victorious, Flavio Bolsonaro was ordered by the Federal Police of his country to surrender his passports, but the politician did not comply and fled—apparently thanks to an Italian passport—from his country to reach Argentina first and then, currently, Florida, where the Trump administration is clearly willing to grant him a visa.
Not everyone knows, however, that at the root of the Brazilian police request and of the rather undignified escape from the country of someone who until a few hours earlier was a presidential candidate lies a film. A film starring an actor well known for being among the very few supporters of the new world right in the entertainment world: Jim Caviezel.
But what happened, then?
What happened is that last year, for reasons easily inferred from the elections, Flavio Bolsonaro strongly pushed for the production of a biographical film that would recount with emphatic and laudatory tones the ascent to the presidency of his father Jair, who at the moment is sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for the attempted coup in 2022. This film, titled Dark Horse and featuring Caviezel in the role of Bolsonaro Sr., and which was shot in English to reach the broadest possible audience, was written by the former Minister of Culture in Bolsonaro’s government, Mário Fria, and directed by an American director named Cyrus Nowrasteh; it was financed by a production company created specifically for the project, the American Go Up Entertainment.
But—and here the matter takes on a fundamental judicial twist—the funds for its realization would have come through Daniel Vorcaro, former owner and president of Banco Master, a credit institution that ended up at the center of an investigation into a massive financial fraud (talk of a 7-billion-euro hole in the balance sheet) that led Vorcaro himself to prison and involved prominent figures in the worlds of finance, politics, and even the Brazilian judiciary.
In an initial phase Flavio Bolsonaro had denied having asked for money from Vorcaro, but he later admitted a financing of 12 million dollars arrived through a fund (which in reality appears to have been 24). And precisely because of this financing, Bolsonaro Jr. was under investigation by the police for corruption.
Obviously Caviezel, about whom we can think whatever we want on political or moral grounds, has nothing to do with the judicial matter in question.
For the more curious, or morbid, below is the trailer for this Dark Horse.