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Moore to Make New Movie
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Oscar-winning documentary maker Michael Moore, who this week unveiled plans for a follow-up to his anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11," said on Friday the new film would cover topics so "toxic" he probably should not make it.Ooooohhhh....Don't tease me that way, Fat Boy! But Moore, whose work ranges from an expose of American gun culture in "Bowling for Columbine" to a scathing critique of U.S. health care in "SiCKO," relishes controversy, so his unnamed new movie will likewise be risky, he told reporters at the Cannes film festival. "It's something I shouldn't make, something that is dangerous," he said. But Moore divulged few details of the film, which he only recently began and is tentatively set for release roughly a year from now by independent studio Overture Films and Paramount Vantage International. The movie, he said, would not be a "sequel" to "Fahrenheit 9/11" but it will focus on policies of the Bush administration, examining how they have affected the lives of Americans and the reputation of the United States around the world. From a fair and balanced point of view. With the United States in the throes of an economic slowdown and military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Moore wondered aloud if the country had become like the Roman Empire before its fall. "Are we at that point yet?" he asked. Posted by: Bobby 2008-05-17 |
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