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| Moore to Make New Movie |
| 2008-05-17 |
| 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 |
| #3 "It's something I shouldn't make, something that is dangerous," So it'll be an expose on Islam right? No, probably Christianity or Judism - you know how those Christians and Jews start lopping off heads when they get criticized.... Mike Al-Moore hasn't done a real 'dangerous' film in his entire career. More of the same sewer-swell ... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-05-17 13:09 |
| #2 Procopius2K, Fat Mike doent realizethat he and his sort will nto be welcomed as saviors, but pilloiried as the causes once people do the math. They are the ones that will be run out of power and end up dancing at the end of a lynch mob rope. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-05-17 11:53 |
| #1 Moore wondered aloud if the country had become like the Roman Empire before its fall. "Are we at that point yet?" he asked. Ah, No. One, you weren't around as an adult [not that you qualify for that even today] in the 70s fat boy when it was far worse than today. And Two, maybe the end of the Republic, but definitely not the Empire. That period [characterized by not giving a shit what others think about America]is yet in the future. The knives maybe being sharpened in our Senate, but I doubt the wielders understand where it will end. The record doesn't bode well for them and their faction. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-05-17 08:49 |