"The audience for American Carol is underserved by Hollywood," director David Zucker says  about his latest movie. 

The liberal-turned-conservative writer/director David Zucker, best know for his non-partisan, high impact comedies like Airplane! and Naked Gun, is trying his hand at a new genre that suits his post-9/11 Republican sensibilities: a rightwing-themed comedy, which takes broad, slapstick jabs at the anti-war movement, the ACLU, Michael Moore and liberal values in general.

Loosely based on Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas fable,  the plot of An American Carol revolves around a heavyset, leftist filmmaker named  Michael Malone who is visited by the ghosts of George Washington, George Patton and John F. Kennedy after joining an activist group called Moovalong.org which wants to ban the Fourth of July.  When Malone’s last film Die American Pigs is a box office flop,  he is recruited by a group of Afghanistani terrorists to direct a new suicide bomber recruiting video. Hilarity ensues when he unwittingly helps them launch another attack on American soil. (Cringe–seriously)

Zucker has high hopes for the movie which stars Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight and Kevin Farley–the brother of late comedian Chris Farley–as Michael Malone, with cameos by James Woods as an agent and Dennis Hopper playing a judge who shoots an ACLU lawyer trying to remove the Ten Commandments from his courthouse wall. "About 150 million people will love it, and 150 million people will hate it," says the director.

 An American Carol opens October 3 in 2000 theaters.