By Tina Daunt, Apr. 2, 2014, The Hollywood Reporter
Al Gore might need to dust off his projector. The creative forces
behind the Oscar-winning environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth
are hatching plans for a sequel to the film that raised global awareness of
climate change. "We have had conversations," producer Lawrence
Bender tells THR. "We've met; we've discussed. If we are going
to make a movie, we want it to have an impact."
The first film certainly did.
Released in 2006 by Paramount and Jeff Skoll's Participant Media, the Davis
Guggenheim-directed doc grossed nearly $50 million worldwide and helped
propel Gore, its narrator, to a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. But Bender believes
that during the ensuing years, the fossil-fuel industry has changed the
dialogue with a misinformation campaign. "They did a really good job of
pushing back and confusing people," he says. "Some people actually
believe global warming doesn't exist."
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