The True Story of “The Order”

The Terrorgram materials, which include practical bomb-making instructions, cover-up and tactical guides, as well as instructions on how to disable critical infrastructure such as power stations, water treatment plants and dams, have been developed by at least one so-called “saint,” or mass shooter, and are suspected of being linked to a series of attacks. of the North Carolina power grid and several active federal prosecutions.

“William Pierce doesn’t build bombs,” Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, told Rolling Stone four years ago. “He’s building bombs.” In many ways, Terrorgram Collective fulfills the same role now, and its publication has become a modern version The Turner Diaries. Distributed worldwide in the unmetered Telegram desert, the group’s message of hatred and violence is now being spread without any organized group or disaffected, unbalanced “lone wolf” ideas to cling to as reasons for future violence.

While Order remains rooted in the past except for a single reference to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings on the title card, during production there was no escaping the military drumbeat that arose on the right in the United States. Kurzel, the director, remembers watching news coverage of the January 6 rebellion and noticing a pole erected outside the Capitol building—a drawing of which is found in the book and the accompanying scene. “The Turner Diaries it started to become more visible in today’s situation in a way that scared me,” he said, speaking to WIRED from his residence in Tasmania. Indeed, following January 6, Amazon was removed The Turner Diaries from its online establishment.

Hoult’s brave portrayal of the cool, controlled but dangerous Mathews through the Order’s campaign of armed robbery, forgery, murder, and armed confrontation with the FBI is one of the two anchors of the film. Despite the striking resemblance to the founder of the Silent Brotherhood, Hoult studied his subject, studying Mathews’s demeanor and movements from old sculptures, reading texts that featured his subject in extremes, lifting weights, and cutting alcohol from his diet.

“Mathews was a person who thought and planned ahead of time what his goal was, I think he was always watching. That’s something that Justin and I talked about, that he wasn’t going to lose his head over trivial things or things that might hurt his cause. In his mind, he had already, in a way, planned his future,” Hoult told WIRED.