Adam McKay has found
his core cast for his yet untitled movie about Dick Chaney, the former Vice
President of the United States under President George W. Bush.
The project, which resides
at Paramount Pictures, will star Christian Bale as Cheney, Amy Adams as
Cheney's wife Lynne, and Steve Carell as former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
The plan is to begin
filming in September, assuming the studio pulls the trigger, for a late 2018
release.
According to the
filmmaker and writer, he began writing the film right after winning the Oscar
for The Big Short in 2016, a film that also starred Bale and Carell.
"I’ve always
found Cheney fascinating," McKay told Deadline last fall. "Questions of what
drove him, what his beliefs were. But once we started digging, I was astounded
at how much he had shaped modern America’s place in the world and how shocking
the methods were by which he gained his power."
The yet untitled film
is but one of several socially relevant films the director has lined-up. McKay
is attached to direct the pilot for a HBO drama titled Succession, which centers
on a Murdoch/Redstone-like family dealing with succession, and the 221st
Century challenging media companies. He is also set to direct a drama titled
Bad Blood starring Jennifer Lawrence as Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the blood-test
company Theranos, which claimed it could test blood with only a pinprick
instead of the traditional method. The film is partially based on a book
proposal by John Carreyrou, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, who last fall broke
the story in a piece he wrote for the Wall Street Journal. The company has come
under investigation over claims of inaccurate testing.
Source - Deadline
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