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Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' gets a sequel

Al Gore is getting back into the film business.

<p><span class="cutline js-caption" style="display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold;">Former VP Al Gore with former Mayor of Tacloban City, Alfred Romualdez, and Typhoon Haiyan survivor Demi Raya in the Philippines this March.</span><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">(Photo: Jensen Walker)</span></p>

Al Gore is getting back into the film business.

A decade after releasing An Inconvenient Truth, his Oscar-winning 2006 documentary about the climate change crisis, the former vice president will unveil a sequel next year, Paramount announced Friday.

“Now more than ever we must rededicate ourselves to solving the climate crisis. But we have reason to be hopeful; the solutions to the crisis are at hand," said Gore in a statement.

Directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, Paramount says the new film will differ from An Inconvenient Truth, which mixed documentary footage with Gore’s slide presentation about the dangers of global warming. In the sequel, Gore "travels the world and delivers an inspirational story of change in the making," the studio said in a description.

“A decade after we took a risk in backing a film centered around a slide show presentation and one human’s quest to awaken global consciousness about our changing planet, we are proud to bring global audiences a promising update: that a future powered by clean, safe, renewable, inexpensive, non-polluting energy is no longer a dream but a very attainable reality," said executive producer Jeff Skoll.

The film will premiere on opening night of the Sundance Film Festival in January, and will be released in theaters in 2017.

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