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As presidential candidates debate the issues, film maker Morgan Spurlock reminds them - and us - of an important question:

Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?

So asks Spurlock's new documentary, which opens tomorrow. As outlined in The Los Angeles Times, Spurlock traveled to Pakistan, Afghanistan and several other nations of the Muslim world in order to answer this pressing inquiry.

Since the making of his previous hit, Super Size Me, Spurlock has married Alex, his vegan girlfriend in that film; the couple has a 16-month-old son, Laken, which the director says helped propel Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?. He asked himself, "what kind of world am I bringing a kid into?"

"I knew where we would start, but I didn't know where we'd end," Spurlock said. "What we knew was that I'd come home and hopefully everything would be fine. And we'd have a baby."

Read the full L.A. Times article on Spurlock now.

Mortgan Spurlock is a hot name once again.

The film maker - who made himself famous for eating nothing but McDonald's for a month for the documentary Super Size Me - is a hit at the Sundance Film Festival. That's where his movie Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? premiered.

The director chatted about it with MTV News:

MTV: You have possibly the most talked-about film at Sundance '08. Give us the basic plot in your own words.
Morgan Spurlock: I travel all over the Middle East looking for the most wanted man on the planet.

MTV: We remember your saint of a girlfriend from Super Size Me, and she's now your spouse. What does she say when you come up with these life-threatening concepts?
Spurlock: She was really unhappy about this movie. Especially because, right before I left, she told me she was pregnant. So about two months into preproduction for this movie, she said, "I'm going to have a baby," and that changes your whole outlook on making a film like this.

We talked about it ... for me, what the movie became wasn't why [we haven't] found Osama bin Laden but what creates an Osama to begin with. What kind of world am I about to bring a kid into?

MTV: A lot of the fun in this movie comes with the graphics you use to make it look like a video game.
Spurlock: Yeah, I love documentaries, but so many of them go down like medicine. So this ... is something you can watch and have fun [with] and eat popcorn during.

I'm a product of the '80s video game generation, where we went through the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, into Nintendo, all the way up to the Xbox 360, [which] we have in our house here in Park City. I thought that would be a great thing to incorporate to help tell a story.

Read the full interview with Spurlock now.

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? is a question President Bush stopped asking long ago.

Fortunately, film maker Morgan Spurlock hasn't forgotten about America's number-one enemy, as he set out on a mission to track Bin Laden down in a new documentary. It just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

If you like your documentaries with a bit less attitude and grandstanding (sorry, Michael Moore), then Spurlock is your man. From the outset, Spurlock couches the larger story of bin Laden. He analyzes what the terrorist means, why he exists as he is and, of course, where the heck he's located.

In the beginning, it helps Spurlock's cause when his wife announces she's pregnant. Therefore, our hero simply must embark on his journey if he's going to raise a child in this crazy world. Doesn't he have a paternal duty to get to its evil core?

Spurlock endeavors on a trip throughout the Middle East where he dons the garb of locals, nearly creates a riot on the streets of Israel and fires a rocket launcher. From either side of the political spectrum, this is worth a viewing.

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? is tentatively scheduled to open in theaters around the nation some time this spring.