Michael Moore Talks "While America Slept"

source: darkhorizons.com
Michael Moore, the controversial filmmaker most famous for creating three of the worlds top-5 highest grossing documentaries, has talked about his latest upcoming project, "While America Slept".

The internet has been working in overdrive reporting that his next film will be a sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11 - the hit 2004 documentary that discussed the presidency of George W. Bush, and how the current US President has put Americans in a situation worse than ever before.

When first shown at Cannes, the film received a 15-20minute standing ovation, the longest in Cannes festival history. It later debuted at #1 at the US box office, soon becoming the first documentary to pass the $100million mark in takings.


Moore himself has come out and denied that his new project, tentatively titled "While America Slept," is a sequel, stating that it's a film in its own right. Speaking to the Associated Press, Moore said:

"(It will) examine America as an empire, study its standing since the Sept. 11 attacks and present revelations to surprise audiences as much as the first film did. What I'm going to say in this film is what probably 70 percent of them (audiences) don't want to hear.

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It would be easier and safer to make a sequel, if that's all it was, but this isn't about Bush... 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."

Scheduled for release next year, this film is still heavily under wraps with everyone in the Moore camp keeping quiet so as to maximize the shock of the films content.


It is easy to see why people got confused as to why it's a sequel, but this films looks to be more about the realities of restrictions on personal freedoms as a result of Bush's time in Government.

I guess Oliver Stone has that area already covered with his upcoming George W. Bush biography, titled 'W'.