Posted on 07/23/2008 11:36:33 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The comedy director who gave us such immortal movie lines as Oh stewardess, I speak jive and Dont call me Shirley is now leveling his sights at documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.
David Zucker, the director and writer who helped create Airplane! and The Naked Gun franchise has called on Hollywoods tiny but tightly knit Republican A-list crowd to help him make a broad yet unusually right-leaning political satire titled An American Carol.
The low-budget indie co-stars Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer with Oscar-winner Jon Voight, cinema icon Dennis Hopper, model-heiress Paris Hilton and frequent Zucker stooge Leslie Nielsen in minor roles. Release is planned sometime by years end; the director suggested Friday, Sept. 12, to coincide with the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Zucker and his associates have been keeping the film under fairly tight wraps for months. When hyping the usual casting updates to showbiz trades, those associated with the production would only describe the movie as a spoof of A Christmas Carol and contemporary American culture, avoiding any mention of its political perspective.
Zucker had, however, mentioned the project to a handful of reporters and talk radio hosts, telling one columnist at the Wisconsin State Journal, It outdoes any movie I have ever done in tasteless, offensive, un-PC humor.
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I OWN THAT MOVIE!
We need toto...concentwation!
Sort of a Catholic High School Girls in Trouble/Thats Armageddon combination?
Farley at his best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppN-Q4fCpoQ
You definitely are more well read than me. I cannot name drop with you!
Ever read “Warriors of the Steppe”? That one opened my eyes. Mongolian cavalry was the mechanized divisions of that era
It is a force of extwordinawy magnitude!
Jon Voight
Yes it is a trilogy and judging by box office the other two will get made
Jon Voight.... all you need to know about him is “Heat”
Joey, have you ever been to Abu Ghraib Prison? Have you ever seen Michael Moore naked?
“Well, Michael Moores about as big as an airplane.”
Blimp!
Nice.
Awesome. If it’s a tenth as funny as Airplane! or the Naked Gun series, I’ll be laughing for days. And I’m sure it will be; skewering liberals makes for great humor. Team America had me cackling the whole time followed by days of randomly yelling “America! F*** Yeah!” : D
And Bill O’Reilly has a small part in which he beats the crap out of Michael Moore. LOL!
Check out my movie with Jon, “The Fixer.”
I hear the movie is hilarious, and pulls no punches.
Paris Hilton would fit that type of role. Topical guest spot.
Now if OJ comes running through the airport...
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