Michael Moore thinks you’re dumb. Yes, he’s doing a follow-up to his provocative documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11,” about the events and aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September, 11, 2001, but no, the film is not a “sequel,” and if you use that language, well you’re just a big jackass (or something).
“To just say it’s a sequel is so wrong,” Moore told The Associated Press on Friday at the Cannes Film Festival (he’s currently there trying to sell it though it’s still a work in progress).
Back in 2004, the sequel, er follow-up film was to be titled, “Fahrenheit 9/11 and 1/2,” and was supposed to be ready and released for the time of the upcoming election, but unless it’s mostly shot and we’re all unaware of it, this seems unlikely. Update: Reuters says Moore says, film will probably come out this time next year. He also told the news outlet the the film will be very controversial. “It’s something I shouldn’t make, something that is dangerous,” he said.
Back to Cannes present: “It would be easier and safer to make a sequel, if that’s all it was, but this isn’t about Bush,” the tumescent documentarian said. “We all know this. Regardless of who the president is come November, we have a big mess, a big, big mess to be cleaned up, and I don’t know whether it can be cleaned up. The toxicity of the spill may be so great that there’s nothing we can do about it. If that’s the case, where are we now as America and as Americans?”
The film doesn’t have a title yet and Moore spent the rest of the entire AP interview saying that Bush is bad, and citing percentages and facts that Republican websites went to immediately debunk via the internets.
“What I’m going to say in this film is what probably 70 percent of them (audiences) don’t want to hear.”
