Cult Leader Jim Jones Movie - (Starring Leonardo DiCaprio)

[Roid Jones]

Silly, only Daniel Day-Lewis could pull that off

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

man would've preferred this be a series

 

[DaddyFresh]

nikkas try way to hard to be hardcore black activist lol. Movie gonna be flames

 

[Cartier Murphy]

There have been like 10 actual film/TV dramatizations and more than a few movies that have been "inspired by" the Jonestown massacre like The Sacrament.
Studios will keep making it because it is a story that still captures the public's imagination.

I remember being so disappointed by The Sacrament, I had no idea going into it it was basically just gonna be a POV Jonestown cosplay.

 

[///Vega+++]

All those babies that died...
I'm not sure about this

 

[THE 101]

Ya'll ever hear Jim Jones' choir's music?



shyt is so demonic....it's so happy go lucky and then you realise them kids signing were probably poisoned

Just evil vibes

 

[Starman]

man would've preferred this be a series

This. It really should be a series. I'm no expert on the matter but I have been fascinated by cults in general and this one in particular. There's just way too much there for 2hrs 15 min.

There's a great podcast series called God's Socialist.

 

[valet]

I remember watching the og in high school and shocked that a man kissed another man. I'm sure this gonna have Leo doing some super sus stuff in 2021

 

[DaRealness]

I agree that this needs to be a series instead of a movie. You can't give the whole story in a two hour flick.

The David Koresh cult story was made into a series and I thought it was brilliant.

This one was more hard hitting and complex.

 

[TheKongoEmpire]

Jim Jones was Puerto Rican so Leonardo DiCaprio will be playing, a Puerto Rican.

James Warren Jones was born on May 13, 1931, in a rural area of Crete, Indiana,[1][2] to James Thurman Jones, a World War I veteran, and Lynetta Putnam.[3][4] Jones was of Irish and Welsh descent;[5] he later claimed partial Cherokee ancestry through his mother, but his maternal second cousin said this was untrue.[5][note 1] In 1934, the economic difficulties during the Great Depression forced the family to move to the nearby town of Lynn, where Jones grew up in a shack without plumbing.[6][7]

 

[Mowgli]

James Warren Jones was born on May 13, 1931, in a rural area of Crete, Indiana,[1][2] to James Thurman Jones, a World War I veteran, and Lynetta Putnam.[3][4] Jones was of Irish and Welsh descent;[5] he later claimed partial Cherokee ancestry through his mother, but his maternal second cousin said this was untrue.[5][note 1] In 1934, the economic difficulties during the Great Depression forced the family to move to the nearby town of Lynn, where Jones grew up in a shack without plumbing.[6][7]

I was already corrected brother thank you

 

[TheKongoEmpire]

I watched an interview on Oprah a few years ago from a teen survivor that's now an adult. He was probably in his 40's at the time he was interviewed. He said that their were a few that were held at gunpoint with rifles and told to drink the Kool aid or die.

A few were getting shot for trying to escape. This dude is more Sinister than Charles Manson. Both were sociopaths but on the grand scale, Jim's followers were convinced into killing others.

Spoiler

Some of the church members complained to relatives in the US that Jones was drug addicted and was keeping them from leaving under threat of death. In November 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan led a fact-finding mission to Jonestown, to determine if the reports of sexual slavery, death threats and other stories of mistreatment were true. After three days of interviewing the residents, Ryan’s party started to leave, taking along with them 20 People Temple members who also wanted to leave, and drove to the airstrip near Jonestown. As they were boarding the airplane, a truckload of Jones’ guards arrived and began shooting at the Ryan party. Killed were Congressman Ryan, a reporter from NBC News, two photographers, and one of the defectors. Several others ran into the jungle to escape the onslaught, while those remaining were taken back to Jonestown. At Jonestown, Jones called his congregation together, and ordered them to drink cyanide-laced Kool-aid. A total of 914 people died that day at Jonestown in a mass-suicide, including 276 children, although later investigation indicated a number of the people were murdered by shooting or by forced lethal injection. Jones himself was shot in the head while sitting in a deck chair. An autopsy on Jones revealed that he had a level of the barbiturate pentobarbital that would have killed a normal person, thus indicating that he had built up a long-term habit to using the drug. His son, Stephen Gandhi Jones, who was not present in Jonestown that day, would later confirm his father’s drug addiction. The US Army and the US Air Force mobilized graves registration teams to move the bodies back to the US for burial by their relatives, in a mass casualty operation.

Edit: It was his son. Mother was probably raped.

"Rainbow Family"[edit]
Jones and his wife adopted several non-white children, referring to the household as his "rainbow family",[31] and stating: "Integration is a more personal thing with me now. It's a question of my son's future."[9] He also portrayed the Temple as a "rainbow family".

In 1954 the Joneses adopted Agnes, who was part Native American.[9][15][32] In 1959, they adopted three Korean-American children named Lew, Stephanie, and Suzanne, the latter of whom was adopted at age six,[32] and encouraged Temple members to adopt orphans from war-ravaged Korea.[33] Jones was critical of U.S. opposition to North Korean leader Kim Il-sung, calling the Korean War a "war of liberation" and stating that South Korea "is a living example of all that socialism in the north has overcome."[34]

In June 1959 Jones and his wife had their only biological child, naming him Stephan Gandhi.[15] In 1961, they became the first white couple in Indiana to adopt a black child, naming him Jim Jones Jr. (or James Warren Jones Jr.).[35] They also adopted a white son, originally named Timothy Glen Tupper (shortened to Tim),[15] whose birth mother was a member of the Temple.[9]

 

[TheKongoEmpire]

I was already corrected brother thank you

I noticed he had a tan and assumed he had color in the bloodline.

 

[Nero Christ]

Silly, only Daniel Day-Lewis could pull that off

nah DDL gotta be Camron

Lin Manuel as Juelz

 

[Danie84]

The CAC demonic origin of Don't Drink the Kool-Aid