{"id":2258930,"date":"2024-06-03T19:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/movie-reagan-starring-dennis-quaid-set-to-hit-theaters-20-years-after-popular-presidents-passing\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T19:14:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:14:19","slug":"movie-reagan-starring-dennis-quaid-set-to-hit-theaters-20-years-after-popular-presidents-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/movie-reagan-starring-dennis-quaid-set-to-hit-theaters-20-years-after-popular-presidents-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"New film &#8216;Reagan&#8217; featuring Dennis Quaid to premiere in theaters two decades after the iconic president&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmovie-reagan-starring-dennis-quaid-set-to-hit-theaters-20-years-after-popular-presidents-passing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2258930&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/footage-ship-behaved-erratically-just-before-slamming-into-baltimore-bridge\/\" title=\"Video: Ship Displayed Unstable Behavior Prior to Colliding with Baltimore Bridge\">summary covers<\/a> \u2063the anticipation surrounding the movie \u201cReagan,\u201d featuring\u2063 Dennis \u2064Quaid \u2063as Ronald Reagan, set for release on August 30. It acknowledges Reagan\u2019s \u2063impact, including \u2062pivotal historical events \u200dlike the Brandenburg Gate speech and assassination attempt. The narrative captures personal \u200dexperiences intertwined with Reagan\u2019s presidency, highlighting his legacy and the upcoming film&#8217;s significance.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/randydesoto\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/randydesoto\/%20\"><span>Randy DeSoto<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 3, 2024 at 1:34pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Actor Dennis Quaid portrays Ronald Reagan in the new movie \u201cReagan\u201d set to be released on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p>June 5 marks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/remembering-ronald-reagan-15th-anniversary-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20th anniversary<\/a> of the popular Republican president\u2019s death at the age of 93 in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Quaid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/quaid-will-vote-trump-citing-weaponization-justice-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Fox Nation host Piers Morgan in an interview published last week that Reagan was his \u201cfavorite president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old revealed that he voted for Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1976, but for Reagan in 1980, observing the \u201ctimes were very much like they are now, in fact\u201d under Joe Biden. Quaid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/top-actor-wasnt-planning-voting-trump-45s-trial-now-convinced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> he plans to vote for Donald Trump in November.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan was 69-years-old when he became president in January 1981 and 77 when he left office in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer for the film, co-starring Penelope Ann Miller (\u201cKindergarten Cop\u201d) as Nancy Reagan, was recently released.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/njLPMG8qZ5M?si=8lygi7vYAVfk-ijs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Western Journal attended a screening of the film in Scottsdale, Arizona last month. In short: Quaid\u2019s and Miller\u2019s performances are strong.<\/p>\n<p>The story is told through the eyes of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, portrayed by Academy Award winning actor Jon Voight, who sets out to explain to an up-and-coming Russian leader how Reagan helped bring about the demise of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Are you excited about the new Reagan movie?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As one would expect and hope, some of the most dramatic moments in Reagan\u2019s life are in the movie, including when a would-be assassin shot him in March 1981 just months into his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter\u2019s bullet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/remembering-ronald-reagan-15th-anniversary-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">punctured the president\u2019s lung<\/a> and stopped less than an inch from his heart, having just missed his aorta. Doctors attending him briefly could not detect a measurable blood pressure or pulse, as he had lost one-third of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-derek-chauvin-trial-coverage-to-ninth-day\/\" title=\"The Derek Chauvin Trial \u2013 Coverage to Ninth Day\">blood supply<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About a week later, Reagan wrote in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganfoundation.org\/ronald-reagan\/white-house-diaries\/diary-entry-04071981\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diary<\/a>, \u201cWhatever happens now I owe my life to God and will try to serve him in every way I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What would a Reagan film be without that famous moment before the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany in June 1987, when he proclaimed to the then-leader, \u201cMr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was a cadet at West Point when Reagan was president, so he was my commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>I was thrilled to see him face-to-face in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6SVmFeo3XsQ&#038;ab_channel=ReaganLibrary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 1987<\/a> when he came to the academy to deliver an address regarding relations with the Soviet Union, including ongoing nuclear weapons reduction talks.<\/p>\n<p>That visit came only months after his speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate at the Berlin Wall.<\/p>\n<p>The wall \u2014 built starting in 1961 \u2014 divided the communist, Soviet-controlled sector of East Berlin, with the democratic, free western sector of the city.<\/p>\n<p>While on an Army assignment in Germany in the summer of 1988, I traveled to Berlin crossing through Checkpoint Charlie, the portal between the West and the East.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to return in 2018 to see the city fully united and the Checkpoint Charlie building and a portion of the wall now part of a museum.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Great to be back in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Berlin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Berlin<\/a> for the 1st time in 30 yrs! June 1988 \u2013 June 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BerlinWall?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BerlinWall<\/a> down! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestPoint_USMA?\">@WestPoint_USMA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XNkcqNvmJO\">pic.twitter.com\/XNkcqNvmJO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Randy DeSoto (@RandyDeSoto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandyDeSoto\/status\/1013053857771991040?\">June 30, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lee Edwards \u2014 then a historian with The Heritage Foundation and author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0742543765\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Essential Ronald Reagan<\/a>\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/remembering-ronald-reagan-15th-anniversary-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> The Western Journal in a 2019 interview that Reagan was unequivocally the greatest president of the second half of the 20th century for three reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe restored Americans\u2019 confidence in themselves and the nation, after a prolonged psychological depression that lasted from Vietnam [War\u2019s end] to Carter,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sparked an unprecedented period of economic prosperity, favoring every American, through historic tax cuts and deregulation,\u201d the historian added as his second reason.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Edwards explained how Reagan, through building up the U.S. military and the Strategic Defense Initiative \u201cwon the Cold War at the bargaining table rather than the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can properly say that his presidency and what followed into the 21st century marked the Age of Reagan,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>I was living in Los Angeles just about two miles from Reagan\u2019s home when he passed in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>I was taking a walk that Saturday morning, when I began seeing news trucks zip by and helicopters flying overhead and wondered what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>(It\u2019s crazy to think about a time without smartphones!)<\/p>\n<p>As I made it back to my apartment building, my fellow conservative neighbor called out from his balcony, \u201cDid you hear? Ronald Reagan just died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I joined the approximately 105,000 (over the course of three days) who made the pilgrimage to the Reagan Presidential Library about 40 miles north of Los Angeles to view his casket and pay respects. There were people of all demographics among the crowd: young, old; black, white, brown; working class and wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan delivered his farewell address in January 1989, while I was in my final semester at West Point.<\/p>\n<p>I, of course, liked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/right-and-left-alike-slam-eric-greitens-for-begging-for-political-violence-with-rino-hunting-ad\/\" title=\"Right And Left Alike Slam Eric Greitens For \u2018Begging For Political Violence\u2019 With \u2018RINO Hunting\u2019 Ad\">military imagery<\/a> the remarks contained, talking about the \u201cReagan regiments\u201d that helped change the country\u2019s course in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The 40th president also spoke of how he saw America as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/virginia-cross-americas-mission-set-long-declaration-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city on a hill<\/a>,\u201d as he had often referenced during his political life, a phrase drawn from Jesus Christ\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%205-7&#038;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sermon on the Mount<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan closed saying, \u201cMy friends: We did it. We weren\u2019t just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agreed. Reagan presided over the most successful two-term presidential administration going back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-seeks-bring-back-best-80s-like-reagan-sought-restore-best-50s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great to see the incredible story is coming to the big screen!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. 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As Benjamin Franklin said, \u201cWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Will you support The Western Journal today and <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>become a member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>A Western Journal <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Membership<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  costs less than one coffee and breakfast sandwich each month, and it gets you access to ALL of our content \u2014 news, commentary, and premium articles. You\u2019ll experience a radically reduced number of ads, and most importantly you will be vitally supporting the fight for America\u2019s soul in 2024.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>This is the time. 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Together, we really can save the country.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Thank you for your support!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Please stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44657\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/randydesoto\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44657\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44657\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44657\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44657\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Randy DeSoto has written more than 3,000 articles for The Western Journal since he joined the company in 2015. He is a graduate of West Point and Regent University School of Law. He is the author of the book &#8220;We Hold These Truths&#8221; and screenwriter of the political documentary &#8220;I Want Your Money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania <\/p>\n<p>  Nationality <\/p>\n<p>  American <\/p>\n<p>  Honors\/Awards <\/p>\n<p>  Graduated dean&#8217;s list from West Point <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  United States Military Academy at West Point, Regent University School of Law <\/p>\n<p>  Books Written <\/p>\n<p>  We Hold These Truths <\/p>\n<p>  Professional Memberships <\/p>\n<p>  Virginia and Pennsylvania state bars <\/p>\n<p>  Location <\/p>\n<p>  Phoenix, Arizona <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  Politics, Entertainment, Faith <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 3, 2024, at 1:34 pm, Randy DeSoto&#8217;s commentary reveals Dennis Quaid&#8217;s role as Ronald Reagan in the upcoming \u201cReagan\u201d movie, debuting on August 30. 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