‘Purge 6’ Director Reveals Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Inspired The Film’s “Broken America”

The next installment of The Purge will focus on a “nightmarish version” of the United States partially inspired by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, director James DeMonaco says.

“[The Purge 6] is about the remapping of America based on ideology, sexuality and religion, so that the states are broken down. You have your Black state, you have your gay state, you have your white evangelical state. And it’s really a broken country,” he recently told Collider.

“What’s so strange is that Marjorie Taylor Greene — I’m not gonna say more than her name there — recently wished for an America like that, which to me would be the most nightmarish version,” DeMonaco explained. “It goes against everything that America stands for.”

DeMonaco is gearing up to direct the sixth installment of the Purge series, which imagines what the United States would look like if all crime was legal for 24 hours. He explained that The Purge 6 will show a “broken America” where one state is chosen to purge at a time.

The writer and director, who has been a part of the franchise since the beginning, said Purge 6 is his “way of looking at the country now.”

“For 6, I was extrapolating on the discord and taking it to its furthest, as far as you can take that idea of what’s going on in the country and the political landscape,” he said.

DeMonaco is likely referring to Greene’s statements from February calling for a “national divorce,” in which she said, “We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this.” 

Stephen Colbert sharply criticized her suggestion as “the most unconstitutional idea I’ve ever heard.”

Others, including former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson, pointed out that it sounded like she was calling for another Civil War. Or as DeMonaco put it, another Purge.