Roger Stone

Trump's longtime advisor maneuvers in and out of filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen's grasp in this jaw-dropping look at a political puppetmaster.

Is it possible Roger Stone — the great manipulator, the master puppeteer, the power behind the power — thinks Guldbrandsen’s entertaining, at times jaw-dropping, yet deeply dismaying “A Storm Foretold” is going to show him in a good light? A man who wears a “Roger Stone Did Nothing Wrong” T-shirt, a sartorial choice that just screams innocence. Stone’s response to the news of the cardiac event is to judge it the perfect time to get in a snide yet muddled would-be zinger about Denmark’s socialized health care. [Christoffer Guldbrandsen](https://variety.com/t/christoffer-guldbrandsen/)’s “ [A Storm Foretold](https://variety.com/t/a-storm-foretold/),” a wild-ride doc that grants all-areas access to Stone over a three-year period starting with his 2019 indictment and subsequent pardon, suggests this is not strictly fair. It’s hard to stomach that America can really have been so played by a man who shills “nutriceuticals” on Alex Jones’ Infowars show. That’s not to say that filming “A Storm Foretold” never killed him.