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Leave it to us, though, to see "NOTHING SO STRANGE" as an opportunity to tell an interlocking story on the Web (which we've loosely dubbed "NOTHING SO STRANGE, Chapter II".) Set following the events of the film and flowing in real time over the course of the next year, Chapter II looks at life a year after Gates' tragic (and some would say, unsolved) murder, after David James has left Citizens for Truth to Debra Meagher and founds his own organization, Citizens for Action. As the two continue to pursue their investigations to disprove the Garcetti Report, albeit it in very different fashions, the potential of a complex conspiracy behind the assassination of the world's richest man becomes increasingly apparant.
This year-long plotline, infused with the same sense of realism and reality-hacking as the film, plays itself out against the backdrop of an alternate Web universe -- from Jack Perdue's Gatesophila in BillGatesisDead.com, to Cooper William's twisted conspiracy thinking, to "documentary filmmaker" Brian Flemming's cautious neutrality. From conspiracy theories to corporate competition, government corruption to the cult of personality, "NOTHING SO STRANGE, Chapter II" is a unique experiment in collective fabrication online as a tool of social criticism.
"NOTHING SO STRANGE, Chapter II" begins unfolding in earnest in March 2001 (with the launch of Citizensforaction.org), despite the fact that spontaneous press attention to our project began as early as December 2000, far exceeding any expectations we had for "jumpstarting" our narrative.
  
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