There’s no title as of yet, but it’s going to be about Dick Cheney.
Oscar winner Adam McKay, the director of classic comedies such as Anchorman and Step Brothers, as well as the 2015 hit, The Big Short, is to direct a drama about former US Vice President Dick Cheney next year.
According to Deadline, McKay’s long-term writing partner Will Ferrell will be involved in the production of the movie, as will the team that delivered The Big Short, which garnered multiple Oscar nominations earlier this year and won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
McKay is believed to have completed a screenplay that will soon go out to the cast slated for involvement in the movie, which is due to begin shooting in the spring and should be ready for release late next year.
“I’ve always found Cheney fascinating,” McKay told Deadline.
“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.”
McKay’s movie will be the second major release to feature Cheney, a controversial figure to say the least, in the space of a decade, following on from W, Oliver Stone’s 2008 drama about the presidency of George W. Bush.
Earlier this year, Richard Dreyfuss, who played Cheney in that movie, described him as the “most despicable” man in history.
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