Napoleon and The Crown are travesties: there is no ‘artistic licence’ to distort history

‘Is the story it tells true? To believe so was vital to enjoying the film, but no one bothered to tell us if it was.’ Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer. Photograph: Universal Pictures/AP

We’ve made a great movie. It’s called January 2021 and it shows how Donald Trump really was cheated out of the White House and Joe Biden really did tamper with the Georgia ballot boxes. In one amazing scene you see it was Mike Pence who encouraged the march on the Capitol to discredit Trump. The pope then tells Trump he won. We got the guys from The Crown to make it and it’s really moving.

Don’t believe it? Come on. It’s based on real events. Only bits are fictionalised to add some colour. Besides, since the movie came out, half of Americans think the events it depicts really happened. And we’ve made millions. Yippee.