Current events have compelled documentarian Michael Moore to change course. Initially his “sort-of” (but not really) sequel to “Fahrenheit 9/11” documentary and its subject were under wraps for a long time.
“Its scope is large-scale,” he told Anne Thompson at Cannes. “It’s not a sequel to ‘Fahrenheit 9/11.’ It’s for me the next logical step in a series of films that began with ‘Bowling for Columbine’ and went through ‘Fahrenheit’ and now bring me to this particular place… In this film I’m going to take a look at the empire we have created and how did we get there and exactly when are the lights going to be turned out on this empire?”
Well, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the film was to examine a foreign-policy scope, but now that the economy is in the press everyday and the political topic du jour, Moore has changed his mind and refocused.
Evidently during the election, Moore started “subtly” changing the film’s attention and now leans closer to the “global financial crisis and the U.S. economy.”
But will Americans take heed or listen? Moore’s well-crafted Health Care documentary”Sicko,” sharply aimed right at U.S. audiences and asked them, “is this fair?” “Will you stand for this?” and they answered with a resounding shrug and said, “Pass me the clicker and the Cheetos.”
But then again, touch a man’s wallet and you’ll really grab his attention. Maybe audiences will pick up their shotguns in protest after this one, who knows.
The still-untitled film will contain “an end-of-the-empire tone,” those close to the project told THR. Moore better hope, the economy doesn’t realign itself (or at least become less of a hot-button press topic), before his film is released or he may be too late to, ahem, capitalize.
