The Big Short director Adam McKay is set to tackle a biopic of Dick Cheney, the former Halliburton chief executive and Vice President to George W. Bush.
The site reports that McKay, who won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay on The Big Short and was also nominated for Best Director, has already completed the script for the biopic, and hopes to begin shooting the film in the spring ready for a late 2017 release date. The project will be produced by McKay and his Gary Sanchez partners Will Ferrell and Kevin Messick, along with Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B.
“I’ve always found Cheney fascinating,” said McKay. “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 is currently directing the HBO pilot Succession, and is also attached to the feature film Bad Blood, which will star Jennifer Lawrence as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. He’s also got a story credit on the Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, and is attached as a producer to the comedies The House and Daddy’s Home 2.
