Paramount unit to tell Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
Paramount’s new specialty division has acquired worldwide rights to Participant Prods.’ global-warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” featuring Al Gore.
Helmed by Davis Guggenheim (“Deadwood,” “The First Year”), the film, which had its world premiere at last month’s Sundance Film Festival, weaves the science behind the issue of global warming with the former vice president’s personal history and longtime commitment to communicating the pressing need to reverse the effects of global climate change.
Paramount specialty division president John Lesher called the film “a visually mesmerizing and shocking look at the serious and dire state of our planet.” He added, “We are very proud to help Al Gore expose the urgency of global warming to the widest possible audience.”
“John Lesher and his team expressed such incredible passion for the subject and the particular importance of getting it out in a timely manner so that it may have an opportunity to make a difference in the world,” Participant president Ricky Strauss said.
To coincide with the release of the film — scheduled for May 26 — Rodale Books will publish “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore’s follow-up to his best-seller “Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit,” which was published by Plume Books in 1992.
