Al Gore will open Sundance with a follow-up to 'An Inconvenient Truth'
Al Gore has found a convenient time to open his follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth: the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival.
Paramount Pictures announced Friday that the former vice president's world climate crisis sequel will crack the seal on the 2017 festival, which kicks off Jan. 19 in Park City, Utah.
The follow-up comes 11 years after the original, which still stands as one of the loudest alarms anyone has sounded on climate change in the modern era. An Inconvenient Truth won two Academy Awards -- Best Documentary and Best Original Song -- and grossed $50 million at the worldwide box office.
The as-yet-untitled follow-up is being produced by activist studio Participant Media, and directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk. It follows Gore's continued fight to save the planet.
"Now more than ever we must rededicate ourselves to solving the climate crisis," Gore said in a statement from Paramount. "But we have reason to be hopeful; the solutions to the crisis are at hand. I’m deeply honored and grateful that Paramount Pictures and Participant Media have once again taken on the task of bringing the critical story of the climate crisis to the world."
Paramount will distribute the film sometime in 2017.
Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
