The producers behind the 2006 Oscar-winning environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth revealed that there are possible plans for a sequel.
“We have had conversations,” producer Lawrence Bender told The Hollywood Reporter. “We’ve met; we’ve discussed. If we are going to make a movie, we want it to have an impact.”
The first film, directed by Davis Guggenheim, grossed over $50 million worldwide and helped the film’s narrator, Al Gore, win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
Bender believes that the fossil fuel industry has been misinforming the public lately about global warming. “They did a really good job of pushing back and confusing people,” he said. “Some people actually believe global warming doesn’t exist.”
Environmental activist Laurie David is in favor of a sequel, saying, “God, do we need one. Everything in that movie has come to pass. At the time we did the movie, there was Hurricane Katrina; now we have extreme weather events every other week. The update has to be incredible and shocking.”
However, the sequel is not a done deal. Producer Scott Z. Burns stated that he “would only support doing a follow-up if we have a really, really amazing way of attacking the issue and reinvigorating it.”
