 
Filmmaker Michael Moore (left, Reuters photo) had filmed an interview with Nicholas Berg (right), the 26-year-old American who was kidnapped and executed in Iraq by terrorists, before Berg went to Iraq, but none of the interview was included in the final cut of Moore's new film, "Fahrenheit 9/11," Salon.com reports.
Salon: Moore interviewed Berg for new film
This is kind of freaky:
Recently I've written about both Nicholas Berg, the 26-year-old American whose grisly murder was videotaped earlier this month in Iraq, and about Michael Moore's new film, "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Salon.com reports now, in what it calls an exclusive story, that Moore had interviewed Berg for possible inclusion in "Fahrenheit 9/11" but that none of the approximately 20 minutes of interview footage appears in the final cut of the film.
Salon reports that Moore released this terse statement on the matter: "We have an interview with Nick Berg. It was approximately 20 minutes long. We are not releasing it to the media. It is not in the film. We are dealing privately with the family."
"Moore's camp declined to comment further on any aspect of the [Berg] interview," Salon reports, adding that "It was not clear from Moore's statement whether footage from the interview with Berg had ever been included in early cuts of 'Fahrenheit 9/11'" and that "it was unclear what Berg spoke about in his interview with Moore, or how the two men met."
Moore apparently shoots a lot more footage than he uses in his films.
A former co-worker of mine, whose 19-year-old daughter, Laura Wilcox, was shot to death in 2001 by a mentally ill man at the mental health clinic where she was working here in Northern California, told me that Moore had interviewed him for "Bowling for Columbine," but the interview did not make the final cut of the film. Moore dedicated "Bowling for Columbine" to Laura Wilcox and to two other victims of gun violence, however.
I'm wondering if Moore will similarly dedicate "Fahrenheit 9/11" to Nicholas Berg.
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