Michael Moore’s next is another 9/11 movie!
It’s been long rumored but today it really does look like it’s happening.
American documentary film-maker Michael Moore has agreed a deal with Paramount Vantage and Overture Films (who are co-financing) to make a sequel to the highest grossing documentary of all time - Fahrenheit 9/11.
Moore is working on the movie right now (it’s long been said to be titled Fahrenheit 9/11 and a half) which will be released next year, Moore’s first film since Bowling for Columbine that has been away from the Weinstein’s… with quiet murmurs that the film-maker left the studio because he was unhappy of how the release of Sicko was handled.
The 2004 doc Fahrenheit 9/11 was a scathing and no-holds barred attack on George Bush - showing him to be misguided, incompetent and completely incapable of handling the war on terror. Something that we all agreed with then and something we all agree with now, some four years later.
It was a tremendous piece of work, Moore at his persuasive best…
Can this one catch the global media way that the first movie captured in 2004? Maybe not but it should still be fascinating work.
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“Moore at his persuasive best”.
That’s the best way to sum it up. While it certainly raised some interesting points and did indeed illustrate Bush as a dick, I couldn’t help but feel that Moore was, as I said in another reply I made somewhere, simply handpicking his evidence and interviews to support his already formulated opinion.
I am curious about this second effort though. With people either loving or hating him, it will be interesting to see if he can get any of the haters to talk.
So long as it’s not like Zeitgeist!
Comment by Rory | May 13, 2008