Are we really surprised that Michael Moore is working on a new documentary about Donald Trump? Of course not. My issue with this project is the fact that Trump has been done to death by the media. Is there anything we don't know about 45 that Moore might be engineering into his film? In all honesty, I doubt it. Moore's Indictment of George W Bush, ¨Fahrenheit 9/11,¨ is justifiably a landmark of non fiction filmmaking, so is his gun documentary Bowling For Columbine which has grown in relevance over the years. Moore has been struggling of late to find a groove. Last year's rushed ¨Michael Moore In Trumpland¨ was a half assed rambling stage play and his other films before that, the Wall Street and Bank bashing ¨Capitalism: A Love Story¨ and the American health care bashing ¨Sicko,¨ had moments that were stunningly powerful, but Moore's on camera shtick was starting to become tiresome.
In case you haven't figured the title yet, 11/9 is when Donald J Trump was elected the United States of America.
Here's Variety on the upcoming Trump doc:
The Weinsteins made the acquisition under their Fellowship Adventure Group. Moore is currently directing the film, with the “11/9” in the title referring to the day Trump was declared President of the United States on Nov. 9.
Michael Moore statement:
“No matter what you throw at him, it hasn’t worked,” says Moore. “No matter what is revealed, he remains standing. Facts, reality, brains cannot defeat him. Even when he commits a self-inflicted wound, he gets up the next morning and keeps going and tweeting. That all ends with this movie.”
"Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it's true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my, like, credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it's four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger, fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."