Hunter Biden should have his life depicted in "an eight-part Netflix series" according to Laurence Fox, who plays the president's son in a controversial new movie.
My Son Hunter, also starring former Star Wars actress Gina Carano, was released on September 7.
The film, which was distributed by Breitbart News, deals with allegations of corruption against both Joe and Hunter Biden, while also covering Hunter's much publicized battle with addiction.
The film ends in an alternative reality where Hunter Biden is arrested over the laptop story, and Donald Trump wins re-election.
Speaking to Newsweek, Laurence Fox, the 44-year-old British actor who stars as Hunter, said the president's son deserves more focus from the entertainment industry.
Asked whether My Son Hunter would have a sequel, Mr Fox said he wasn't aware of any plans, before adding: "I think there should be lots of them: a series of films about Hunter. There's enough stuff in there. It should have been an eight-part Netflix series."
Fox was a mainstream actor in the U.K., best known for his role in Oxford-based crime drama Lewis, before becoming politically active. In 2020, he launched the Reclaim Party to challenge "the woke orthodoxy" and oppose coronavirus lockdowns.
Explaining how he became involved with My Son Hunter Fox commented: "Someone sent me the script and I read it and they were like 'do you want to do this? They're going to make a film.' And obviously I'm interested in that area anyway.
"I was amazed somebody hadn't made a film about this already. I was baffled that all of this information was coming out about this fascinating guy and Hollywood weren't going anywhere near it."
To get an insight into Hunter Biden, Fox listened to the audio version of his 2021 memoir Beautiful Things.
Asked what he personally made of Hunter, the actor replied: "There's two ways of looking at it. One is that I'm an actor and therefore can't really judge the guy. You just have to play the humanity of the human being.
"The other way of looking at it is my personal view and my personal view is I think the whole family are corrupt."
In 2014 Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy after testing positive for cocaine, after which he said he had "deep regret" for his actions.
Just three weeks before the 2020 Presidential election the New York Post published an article alleging a meeting between Joe Biden and one of his son's Ukrainian business associates.
The story—which was suppressed by both Facebook and Twitter in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election—came from unverified material on a laptop left in a repair shop by a man who gave his name as Hunter Biden.
An investigation by the Washington Post later confirmed thousands of emails on the laptop were genuine, although many more couldn't be authenticated due to data loss.
Joe Biden denied any wrongdoing and claimed the story was part of a "Russian disinformation" campaign.
Last month, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg admitted reporting on the story was partially suppressed on his social media platform, following warnings from the FBI about Russian interference.
Asked by podcast host Joe Rogan whether he regretted the story being suppressed Zuckerberg replied: "It sucks."
Fox argued if Hunter Biden had been a Republican he'd have been treated "like absolute Satan."
He said: "Anyone with even the vaguest conservative view in America now, and more and more so in England, it's almost becoming illegal to hold a view like that."
The actor added the initial suppression of the Hunter Biden story was an example of "big tech rigging elections."
With both Breitbart and Ben Shapiro's The Daily Wire working on original movies Fox was asked whether we're seeing a new era in conservative film-making.
He replied: "I think there's a new age of film-making, rather than moral posturing which is what film-making has become. Very virtue signaling, woke, critical race theory obsessed show business.
"The media have always been the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and showbiz has increasingly become the film-making arm of the party. It's very communist. I think it's great that a film has managed to get through."
The White House, Hunter Biden and Netflix have been contacted for comment.
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