Recently, we discussed the lengths Nick Loeb has gone to claim ownership or “custody” of the embryos he created with Sofia Vergara more than four years ago. I think the embryos were created five or six years ago, but Sofia and Nick’s breakup happened four years ago, and ever since then, Loeb has been court-hopping and jurisdiction-hopping, trying to find some judge who will find his dumb argument worthy. Loeb’s argument is that the embryos have a “right to life,” and that he simply could not go and find someone else and have a child with someone new. No, he needs these two remaining embryos, regardless of Sofia’s rights to keep them frozen indefinitely. In case you couldn’t tell by now, Loeb is anti-choice, anti-reproductive rights and anti-woman. And here’s the latest wrinkle: he’s “directing” a movie called Roe v. Wade. From The Hollywood Reporter:

As Nick Loeb walked to his car with a production assistant during a day of shooting his upcoming feature film, Roe v. Wade, outside Tulane University last week, a woman wearing a headset approached and asked: “Are you the director?”

“When I told her I was, she told me to go f–k myself,” Loeb recalls. “Then she threw her headset on the ground and walked off. I found out later she was our electrician.”

Anecdotes such as this have become fairly common since Loeb and his production partner, Cathy Allyn, began shooting their pro-life feature film June 15 in and around New Orleans. While Loeb has been in the news in recent years because of his ongoing custody battle over frozen embryos with former girlfriend Sofia Vergara of Modern Family, there’s been little information about the filmmaker’s new project, save for a flurry of articles five weeks ago alleging that Facebook wasn’t allowing him to use its platform to raise money for the story of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that guaranteed a woman’s right to an abortion.

The radio silence — until now — has been by design, both for the security of the cast and crew and in order to obtain shooting locations. To accomplish the latter, Loeb and Allyn have been shooting the film, which will wrap principal photography around July 15, under a fake title that the pair will not disclose.

The film has been under such tight wraps that even the major cast members had not been revealed; Two Supreme Court justices are played by a couple of Hollywood’s more outspoken conservatives, Jon Voight and Robert Davi, and other justices are played by Corbin Bernsen, John Schneider, Steve Guttenberg, William Forsythe, Wade Williams and Richard Portnow. Stacey Dash, the Clueless star and former Fox News commentator who withdrew from a congressional race as a Republican three months ago, claiming the campaign had become “detrimental to the health and well-being of my family,” plays Mildred Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School and the former president of National Right to Life.

Loeb and Allyn say that the timing is perfect for their film, since the Roe v. Wade decision has been in the news due to Justice Anthony Kennedy announcing on June 27 he will retire from the Supreme Court, giving President Trump the opportunity to potentially appoint a judge who will tilt the court toward overturning the case.

“But even without that news, it’s one of the most controversial political decisions in history. It divides us and makes us uncomfortable,” says Loeb, adding that his own battle with Vergara over access to embryos they created has informed the film. “I have my own pro-life issue going on with my fight over embryos, but no one has really told the whole truth about Roe v. Wade in a film. When I delved into this, I discovered conspiracy theories, fake news, made-up statistics and a whole lot of people involved who switched their positions from pro-choice to pro-life, including Norma.”

[From THR]

There’s a lot of anecdotal information in the piece about how various people employed by the production have quit when they realized what the film was about. Loeb makes it sound very “woe is me, the liberals are out to get me, all I’m trying to do is make a humble film about how women are sub-human.” Personally, I’m not “uncomfortable” discussing abortion or reproductive rights – the only people who think the subject matter is “uncomfortable” are the ones trying to make America into Gilead. This guy, my God. I hope Sofia is super-embarrassed she was with him for so many years. He’s an utter tool.

Photos courtesy of WENN.