Commentary Making movies is a tricky business, especially in the COVID era. There’s a reason most people don’t make movies. You need money—a lot of money—and legal work and good cinematographers and editors and someone to do the musical score, and finally a marketing scheme to get the movie widely distributed. People who have money typically don’t have the creativity, and creative people typically don’t have the money. Many people have ideas for movies, and virtually none of those get made. I got into movie-making quite accidentally. In 2010, I wrote a book about President Barack Obama that exposed the anti-colonial ideology he imbibed from his Kenyan father. The book was a success, as books go, which means that it hit the New York Times bestseller list and sold around 100,000 copies. But then a friend of mine, Joe Ricketts, the founder of Ameritrade, asked me if there was a …