Morgan Spurlock has made a name for himself with documentaries like Super Size Me and the upcoming product placement exploration, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, but now it looks like he wants to make his fiction feature debut, and he’d like to do it with something Erin Brockovich-esque.
He sat down with USA Today and when asked if he’d like to movie into fiction filmmaking, he told them, “I would love to. There’s a couple movies that I’m attached to right now. It took a long time to find something that I liked. There’s a film I’m attached to at Leonardo DiCaprio’s company right now that’s very Erin Brockovich-ish, which is great. I wanted to find something that was smart, that I thought had a little teeth to it. Wasn’t just some kind of fluffy … Like, after Super Size Me came out, I got sent so many amazingly terrible scripts. They were like, ‘Super Size Me is hilarious! We should send him some comedies!’ So I got sent some really bad comedies. I got sent a Revenge of the Nerds remake. … I got, like, a Deuce Bigelow movie…
“And I said, if I’m going to make a comedy, then I want it to be something that’s smart. I want it to be a comedy that has some sort of … a driving narrative beyond laughs. Then Thank You for Smoking came out, and I was like, ‘Thank You for Smoking is a great example. This is the movie I want to make.’ But those scripts are hard to find.”
Quite what the ‘Erin Brockovich-ish’ movie is isn’t clear, although it seems it’s one of the many knocking around at DiCaprio’s production company, Appian Way. It’s an apt arena for Spurlock, as Erin Brockovich is the sort of thing you could imagine him making a documentary about, as a single woman takes of a mighty corporation to help the little guys. Hopefully we’ll hear more about this soon.