Abortion…Racism…Tony Kaye must’ve grown up watching alot of after school specials. Seriously though, am I the only person who felt American History X walked a very fine line of cheese? I will, however, give it points for introducing ‘curbing‘ into popular culture, something the ABC Afterschool Specials simply didn’t have the balls to do. Well it looks like THINKFilm DOES have balls, having just acquired the rights to Kaye’s follow up to 1998’s American History X. As we’ve previously reported, ‘Lake of Fire’ is a documentary film that takes on the debate to end all debates…abortion. Described as ‘contraversial’ and ‘graphic’, Kaye’s film has created quite the buzz. Luckily, it’s all been pretty positive and has praised the film as unbiased and indepth. Here’s what Yahoo! Movies had to say:

The 2-1/2-hour feature takes a stark look at all sides of the abortion debate, including footage of procedures, the killings of doctors who have performed them and interviews with such people as Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry and lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Made for more than $6 million over about 16 years, “Fire” will be released theatrically in October, with a possible three- to four-hour TV version to follow.

Man, this sounds like the ‘Ten Commandments’ of abortion films. A four hour TV version!?! 16 years in the making? This is one epic undertaking that i’m interested in seeing. THINKFilm will give the film an October theatrical release. That’s just in time for Halloween!

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