David Zucker, the director and writer who helped create Airplane! and The Naked Gun franchise, has called on Hollywood’s tiny but tightly knit Republican A-list to help him craft a takedown of Michael Moore in the form of a broad yet unusually right-leaning political satire titled An American Carol, according to Politico's Jeffrey Ressner. Zucker and his associates have been keeping the film under fairly tight wraps for months, avoiding any mention of its political perspective by describing the movie to Hollywood trades in casting updates as only “a spoof of A Christmas Carol and contemporary American culture.”

The low-budget indie co-stars Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer, with Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper, Paris Hilton and frequent Zucker stooge Leslie Nielsen in minor roles. Release is planned sometime by year’s end; the director, a self-described "Sept. 11 Republican," suggested Friday, Sept. 12, to coincide with the seventh anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. For more from the Politico, including plot specifics, click here.