Cannes '08: Michael Moore plots sequel to 'Fahrenheit 9/11'

Michael Moore is plotting a follow-up to his 2004 documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."

Although the film is being kept under wraps, it is said that Moore plans to pick up where he left off four years ago, to examine the fallout from  eight years of the  Bush administration's policies.

Moore is beginning production on the documentary "immediately," according to studio reps, although he is expected to attend the Cannes Film Festival to support the project and promote it to buyers at the market on Friday.

The French festival is a welcoming venue for Moore, who was the first documentary filmmaker to win the Cannes Film Festival's Palme D'Or in five decades with "Fahrenheit 9/11" in 2004.

Moore also lovingly documented the French healthcare system in last year's "Sicko" which was warmly received on the Croisette last spring.

The film's financiers, Overture Films and Paramount Vantage, plan to co-produce and co-finance the sequel, with Overture releasing it in the U.S. and Vantage overseeing international rights and release.

Moore's follow-up to "Fahrenheit 9/11," referred to informally in some circles as "Fahrenheit 9/11 1/2," is expected to be released in mid-2009.

-- Sheigh Crabtree

Photo: Michael Moore on the red carpet at Cannes in 2004. Vincent Kessler / Reuters

Comments

[David Theiss]

Here's the premise to the movie everyone really wants to see: There are no rational explanations whatsoever for our response to 9/11. There is an irrational reason, however: Bush's vendetta to destroy Hussein and Iraq was solely in response to Hussein's earlier, ill-considered plot to kill Bush Sr. It turns out Bush, Jr., is merely a good, if misguided, son.

[David Theiss]

Here's the premise to the movie everyone really wants to see: There are no rational explanations whatsoever for our response to 9/11. There is an irrational reason, however: Bush's vendetta to destroy Hussein and Iraq was solely in response to Hussein's earlier, ill-considered plot to kill Bush Sr. It turns out Bush, Jr., is merely a good, if misguided, son.

[Chris]

As long as this fat hippo mentions that from 1992-2001 there were 13 major terrorist attacks against the US on our soil and abroad and ZERO after the war he hates so much, I promise to watch. What an amazing side effect of this war huh? ZERO. Crazy what happens when terrorists get killed faster than they can reproduce

[Harkadahl]

In the absence of any real journalists in America (you know, the ones that debunk lies and scrutinize government) it falls to Michael Moore's subjective and heartfelt films to document the astonishing corruption and amorality of the Bush administration. If the yellow-bellied, sold out news media had been doing its work properly, the population (spoonfed and ignorant though it is) would have had a clue that President Cheney is delusional about US power and craved military dominance of foreign countries. The likes of Michael Moore and Jon Stewart will be regarded as rare beacons of light in a dark dark era.

[Gary Anderson]

Clearly Bush allowed 9/11 to occur. The motive was to complete the PNAC directive to control the wealth of the middle east on the way to dominating the world. The event that PNAC wanted to provide a reason to invade the middle east actually came to pass. And the lies about WMD, etc were the result of Wolfowitz sitting at the feet of Leo Strauss, the philosophical guru of PNAC. Strauss believed that you respect democratic institutions, but you lie and are essentially amoral if you are the elite. Bush followed this philosophy perfectly. IMO, George Bush and Cheney, and Rice and Greenspan, who funded the Iraq War with liar loans, should be prosecuted for murder, war crimes and human rights abuses.

Just remember folks, the pulverization of all three WTC buildings could not have occured without explosives being planted. As Jesse Ventura has said, even WTC7 fell the same strange way without having any damage from an airplane. I hope Moore reams Bush 2 for being the really evil man that he is.

My father was Jewish, and I am adopted. As a descendent of the Jews I want justice not greed. That is where PNAC went wrong.