Jesus from QAnon becomes Jair Bolsonaro in biopic

Yes, what seemed like a WhatsApp group joke turned into a real movie: Dark Horse“epic-heroic” biopic about Jair Bolsonarois in production and is scheduled to premiere in 2026. The idea is to revisit the 2018 campaign with a focus on the stabbing in Juiz de Fora and sell everything packed with the hero’s journey, dark conspirators and a lot of “they’re trying to shut me up”.

The package comes complete:

• Working title: Dark Horse (The Underdogin free translation)

• He: behind the scenes of the 2018 campaign + attack + hospital + “hidden forces”

• Debut: scheduled for 2026, strategically close to the US elections (and right in the middle of our eternal political hangover).

If you thought you’d seen every kind of bizarre political film in recent years, take a deep breath. There’s still room for more.

Who’s who in the circus: Caviezel, Nowrasteh & Frias

Starting with the paradoxical trio that runs the show:

• Jim Caviezel – will play Bolsonaro. Yes, the same actor from The Passion of Christfamous for playing Jesus and, later, for embracing conspiracy theories about the “global elite” and echoing narratives linked to QAnon.

• Cyrus Nowrasteh – North American director, specialist in political-religious films: The Stoning of Soraya M., The Young Messiah, Infidel. The man lives by mixing geopolitics, faith and martyr in slow motion.

• Mario Frias – federal deputy, former secretary of Culture and screenwriter of the film. He sells the project as a chance to show “the truth” about 2018, which, translated from Marquetez, means: film designed to please those who already like Bolsonaro.

In other words: the perfect combo to transform the former president into the protagonist of messianic thriller. If there was a lack of someone to create the “cinematic universe of the myth”, apparently there is no longer any.

What Dark Horse will tell (and retell)

The narrative follows the hero’s journeyaccording to official materials. The guiding thread is the stabbing in Juiz de Fora, but the script goes on well beyond that:

• 2018 campaign shown as epic battle against “system” and “conspirators”;

• Hospitalization, recovery, hospital backstage – all in the tone of “chosen man who survives against all odds”;

• The aggressor Adélio Bispo vira Aurelio Barba in the film, because not everyone has the courage of cheap fiction to use their real name and accept the implications;

• They should still appear alleged other attack attempts during recovery, reinforcing the climate of total persecution;

• Flashbacks to the 80s, with Bolsonaro in the military in operations against drug trafficking, to cement the image of an “incorruptible soldier facing crime”.

In summary: less complex biopic, more epic-revisionist fanfic with a stamp “based on reports from the protagonist himself and his digital bubble”.

Bolsonaro family gets spin-off within the film

Of course, the clan wasn’t going to be left out of the casting. On the contrary, it almost has an internal spin-off:

• Flavio Bolsonaro – lived by Marcus OrnellasBrazilian naturalized Mexican and favorite of Latin soap operas;

• Carlos Bolsonaro – performed by Sergio Barretoknown for productions by Brasil Paralelo (which already says a lot about the ideological tone of the package);

• Eduardo Bolsonaro – on the skin of Eddie FinlayAmerican actor with appearances in Fast and Furious e Bad Boys II;

• Michelle and Laura Bolsonaro – confirmed in the plot, but without actresses announced yet, fueling that social network speculation that lives on “who should play who”.

It’s practically the “Bolsonaro Cinematic Universe – Phase 1”: idealized version, united family, lots of tears, lots of sacrifice and zero structural problems or real contradictions.

Hot context: political film during sentencing and election times

The timing isn’t exactly innocent:

• The film arrives at a time when Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and 3 months in prison for attempted coup, armed criminal organization and other crimes linked to the coup plot.

• The premiere is planned for close to the 2026 electionsbetting on a curious international market with the “Bolsonaro character” and, as a bonus, pleasing conservative audiences in Brazil and the USA.

In practice, Dark Horse born looking like:

• political film,

• with a strong ideological bias,

• targeting a clearly defined audience.

If you found 1964: Brazil between Guns and Books Heavy on revisionism, get ready: now he is a foreigner directing an epic narrative about the “underdog” who, supposedly, faced everything and everyone in the name of the people.

Is this good as a cinema or is it just 24 fps?

Honest question, bitter answer: nobody knows yetbut the signs are not subtle.

Points in favor of the film functioning at least as a cinema:

• Nowrasteh knows how to direct political-religious thrillers, he has done some intense stuff (Soraya M., Infidel);

• Caviezel, when he is not speaking on the stage of a conspiracy rally, is a competent actor;

• The story of the stabbing, in itself, has dramatic material to make for a tense thriller.

Points against:

• script in the hands of a direct political ally of the person portrayed;

• narrative clearly designed to transform a real character into messianic archetype;

• zero indication that there will be nuance, ambiguity or serious counterpoint. Everything smells more like cinematographic hagiography than the biopic.

Who’s going to watch Dark Horse?

Basically, three audiences:

1. Who already loves Bolsonaro

   • Go to the cinema to see the myth saving the world in Dolby Atmos,

   • he’ll start repeating the film’s words on X as if it were a campaign slogan.

2. Who hates Bolsonaro, but loves to be angry

   • You will see it as an anthropological experience,

   • set up a drinking game every time someone says “people”, “system” or “global elite”.

3. Masochistic cinephile

   • Go and see how international political cinema is dealing with the “Bolsonaro character”,

   • and to compare with recent critical documentaries that go in exactly the opposite direction.

At the end, Dark Horse It was born as an event film, not because of artistic merit, but because of the inevitable noise around it. It will share a cinema room, bar table and family group as if it were a widescreen election.

Will it be good? Unlikely.
Will it be forgettable? No way.

With this cast, this director and this script, the minimum guaranteed is one thing:
looping controversy, infinite memes and a 2018 reenacted so that no one can finally get over 2018 ever again.