BBC NEWS | Director Moore denies Blair film
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Director Moore denies Blair film:
"Controversial film-maker Michael Moore has denied that he intends to follow up his anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 with a film about Tony Blair.
In a recent interview with Reuters he said he holds Blair 'more responsible for this war in Iraq than I do Bush'.
However, a message posted on Moore's website stated that reports of his plans for a film on Blair were false."
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Movie rottweiler turns on Blair
Kirsty Scott
Monday June 14, 2004
The Guardian
He's been given a kicking at the local elections and was last night facing a bloody nose at the European polls. So it's just the kind of cheerful news Tony Blair needs now: that the cinematic equivalent of a rottweiler, Michael Moore, is contemplating making the prime minister his next victim.
Fresh from savaging President George Bush in the critically acclaimed Fahrenheit 9/11, the filmmaker is now thinking about making a movie about Mr Blair and Britain's role in the war on Iraq.
"I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better," Moore said in an interview with the Reuters news agency. "Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?"
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Why is the Guardian, UK, running a story that was turned around 11 hours ago by the BBC?
NOTE: The editors were emailed 10 minutes ago. Let's see if they reply.
Michael Moore has Blair in sights
Collective Bellaciao, France - 2 hours ago
Michael Moore's anti-Iraq war crusade is not stopping with US President George W. Bush as the filmmaker says he now wants to make a movie about Prime Minister ...
Blair safe from Moore's lens
ABC Online, Australia - 2 hours ago
Oscar-winning documentary film-maker Michael Moore says he was only joking when he suggested last week that he would make a film about British Prime Minister ...
Michael Moore denies Blair film underway Guardian UnlimitedStaff and agencies
Monday June 14, 2004
Safe for now ... Moore is not making a film on Blair ... yet
Tony Blair can heave a sigh of relief. He may have received a drubbing in the local and European elections, but at least he's going to escape a skewering from Michael Moore - for the time being at least.
Recent reports suggested that Moore - Oscar winning director of Bowling for Columbine and director of the controversial Fahrenheit 9/11 - was working on a film about Blair's role in the Iraq war. In fact, Moore had told Reuters that he felt a separate film on Blair was needed. In an interview on Friday, Reuters asked the film-maker why there were so few references to Blair in Fahrenheit 9/11 and Moore replied that he had "struggled" with that issue.
"What I decided is that I need to make a separate film about Blair, at some point," he said. "I need to do something about Blair and Britain."
However, that comment took on a life of its own and reports were soon flying about that a Blair film was underway. Now, however, Moore's own website discounts the story.
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