By Bob Tourtellotte Fri May 16, 5:59 PM ET

CANNES, author (Reuters) - Oscar-winning flick makerMichael Moore, who this hebdomad undraped plans for a follow-up tohis anti-Bush contestation "Fahrenheit 9/11," said on weekday the newfilm would counterbalance topics so "toxic" he belike should not makeit.

But Moore, whose impact ranges from an guy of dweller gunculture in "Bowling for Columbine" to a scalding criticism ofU.S. upbeat tending in "SiCKO," relishes controversy, so hisunnamed newborn flick module likewise be risky, he told reporters atthe metropolis flick festival.

"It's something I shouldn't make, something that isdangerous," he said.

But histrion divulged some info of the film, which he onlyrecently began and is tentatively ordered for promulgation roughly ayear from today by autarkical flat Overture Films andParamount Vantage International.

The movie, he said, would not be a "sequel" to "Fahrenheit9/11" but it module pore on policies of the Dubya administration,examining how they impact strained the lives of Americans and thereputation of the United States around the world.

With the United States in the throes of an economicslowdown and expeditionary conflicts in Irak and Afghanistan, Moorewondered aloud if the land had embellish same the romish Empirebefore its fall. "Are we at that saucer yet?" he asked.

At incase offices, his newborn flick module grappling risks. Recent filmsdealing with the underway wars, much as "Stop-Loss" and "In theValley of Elah," were advertizement flops.

But histrion said he believed those movies unsuccessful because mostAmericans no individual hold the wars, whereas in 2004, when"Fahrenheit 9/11" was released, most Americans ease backedU.S. expeditionary pursuits in Irak and Afghanistan.

He believes "Fahrenheit 9/11," which ranks as thetop-grossing semipolitical flick of every instance with more than$220 meg at orbicular incase offices, was a impact because it toldaudiences things most the Dubya brass that they weresurprised to hear.

Similarly, he said his newborn flick module follow by exposinginformation most President martyr W. Dubya and his policiesthat module yield audiences stunned.

"What I'm feat to feature in this flick is what belike 70percent of them (audiences) don't poverty to hear," histrion said.

Reuters/Nielsen