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Michael Moore vs. Wall Street
As the American economy goes to hell in a hand basket, Michael Moore is working on his new still untitled doc. Announced by Overture and Paramount Vantage at Cannes in May as a follow-up to Fahrenheit 9/11, the doc couldn't be more timely. The gadfly who went after General Motors in his breakthrough film Roger and Me is now chasing down the villains of Wall Street and corporate America, the Gordon "greed is Good" Gekkos of the world.
"Its scope is large-scale," he said in 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?"
Here's the full Cannes interview:
In Portfolio, gifted business writer Michael Lewis of The New New Thing fame analyzes the end of the Wall Street boom. (Steve Zaillian is currently adapting Lewis's baseball expose Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, with director David Frankel attached.)
[Illo courtesy Portfolio]
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