Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Follow-Up Due In October
Will the fur fly or will Moore's latest be accepted with open arms?
Get ready folks as September is likely to be filled with plenty of outrage leading up to the newly announced release date of Michael Moore's untitled follow-up to Fahrenheit 9/11. Yesterday it was confirmed Overture Films and Paramount Vantage, the film's co-financers and distributors, will release the film on October 2.
Moore won the Best Feature Documentary Oscar in 2002 with Bowling for Columbine and the original Fahrenheit 9/11 raked in $119 million at the domestic box-office and another $103 million in the international markets. Fahrenheit 9/11 is the highest grossing domestic release in several categories including documentary and Cannes Film Festival Palme D'Or winners, besting Pulp Fiction by $12 million.
This follow-up was at one point intended to be directed at foreign policy, but as the economic climate changed so did Moore's film as the focus of the film will explore the root causes of the global economic meltdown and take a comical look at the corporate and political shenanigans that culminated in what Moore has described as "the biggest robbery in the history of this country" – the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions.
In the press release sent out by Overture Moore was quoted saying, "The wealthy, at some point, decided they didn't have enough wealth. They wanted more — a lot more. So they systematically set about to fleece the American people out of their hard-earned money. Now, why would they do this? That is what I seek to discover in this movie."
To add a moment of commentary, I will say I actually enjoy a lot of what Michael Moore offers in his documentaries, but I wish he would show a little more of both sides of the argument. Both Fahrenheit 9/11 and his 2007 release Sicko were so one-sided it was hard to take them seriously.
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