George Santos is saying a giant “f*** you” to everybody at HBO … vowing to go after the channel/streaming platform for growing a brand new film about his controversial political profession.
The recently-booted congressman sounded off to TMZ after HBO optioned the rights to Mark Chiusano‘s new ebook “The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos” … blasting it as defamatory and misappropriating his identify and likeness.
Santos says he has zero involvement within the “fictitious story” the film plans to promote to the American individuals … and is vexed concerning the filmmakers and ebook’s creator not chatting with him or getting authorization to write down about him.
Nonetheless, he says he isn’t involved about how he’ll be represented within the doc … as a result of he is engaged on a mission that most closely fits his narrative. As for HBO, Santos vented, “F*** them and their chicken s*** deal with no inside information or reality of facts.”
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We’re unsure how he’ll navigate any potential comeback path following his expulsion from Congress final week … however ya gotta applaud the hustle.
The choice got here following a controversial time in workplace, which included multiple felony charges.
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For now, he is been busy advising his followers to “let the haters hate” on Cameo for $200 a vid.
BTW, we talked to the man whose ebook this HBO movie is predicated on … and he tells us he tried his greatest to get GS to get entangled within the story, to no avail although.
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Writer Mark Chiusano — who revealed ‘The Fabulist’ this 12 months — joined us on “TMZ Live” Tuesday to debate Santos’ threats of motion towards the film … and he says he is heard all of it earlier than. The man additionally stands by his work, and thinks he did an excellent job of representing issues as they’re.