Adam McKay Will Direct a Movie About Dick Cheney at Paramount Pictures

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After tackling the real-life drama of the real estate bubble burst in The Big Short, director Adam McKay is heading into biopic territory.

The director who was previously at the helm of comedies like Step Brothers and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy has set up a new movie about former Vice President Dick Cheney over at Paramount Pictures, and the project will re-team him with much of the creative team behind The Big Short.

Find out more about the Dick Cheney movie after the jump.

Deadline has word on the currently untitled project that will reunite Adam McKay with producers Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner from Plan B, as well as Will Ferrell and Kevin Messick at McKay’s own Gary Sanchez Productions. Considering the last time all these people got together for The Big Short it resulted in several Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and an Oscar win for Adam McKay and Charles Randolph for Best Adapted Screenplay, having them all back together certainly sounds promising.

The question is just what kind of biopic will Adam McKay be making? The director hasn’t been shy about criticizing the presidency of George W. Bush, even using one of his flubbed quotes to open Step Brothers. And he’s been even more critical about Dick Cheney, once saying that the difference between the vice president and George W. Bush was that the latter “doesn’t have Cheney’s cartoonish need for power and greed that’s so off the charts you don’t even understand how Cheney got that way.”

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So will McKay set out to explore the life of Dick Cheney to see how he became the man who many believe was the true puppeteer of George W. Bush’s presidency? Will this be a more even-handed sort of character profile along the lines of Oliver Stone’s W., which despite the filmmaker’s obvious political leanings, didn’t hit audiences over the head with a biased message? Or will McKay craft something that’s a little more damning? McKay offers this hint of where the movie will go:


I’ve always found Cheney fascinating. 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.

There’s a lot to explore with regards to Cheney’s life before he became vice president, not to mention everything he had a hand in after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. He’s been a controversial figure in politics for some time now, and he’s not the most admired on Capitol Hill, but his story should still be a fascinating one to tell. I’m certainly interested in seeing how Adam McKay tackles this one.

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‘Highlander’ Reboot Scoops Up ‘John Wick’ Director Chad Stahelski

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The Highlander reboot has been kicking around for many years now. We’ve seen all sorts of talent come and go with this project, including directors Justin Lin (Star Trek Beyond) and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later). The last director attached to the Highlander reboot was Cedric Nicolas-Troyan (The Huntsman: Winter’s War), but he’s no longer involved. John Wick and John Wick: Chapter Two director Chad Stahelski (on the right side of the picture above) is now sitting in the Highlander reboot’s director’s chair.

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The Hollywood Reporter learned Stahelski, who made the first John Wick with the uncredited David Leitch, is directing the reboot based on the 1986 fantasy film. The story follows an immortal warrior, Connor MacLeod (a role that once had Ryan Reynolds attached), who must defeat Kurgan to win The Prize, the power of all the immortals that have ever lived.

Leitch may board the reboot along with Stahelski and their 87eleven production team, but that’s currently unconfirmed. Stahelski shared his love for the original with THR:


I’ve been a huge fan of the original property since I saw it in high school. Such great themes of immortality, love, and identity are all wrapped up in such colorful mythology. I can’t think of a better property that gives the opportunity to create interesting characters, mythic themes, and action set pieces.
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Again, he’s stepping in for Nicolas-Troyan, who was still attached to the reboot back in April when he told us a bit about his plans for it. The idea was to follow some of the film’s original characters:


I’ve been working on this movie for quite a while. I’m still involved in it, very much so. In fact, I just talked about it yesterday with Lionsgate. You know, there are going to be some surprises there, for sure. I’m going to say that it’s very close to the original story, but there will be surprises. The characters you love in the first movie are back. There are definitely some changes, for sure.

Whether Stahelski has also signed on to stay close to the original story is unclear, but Lionsgate is already searching for a new screenwriter to collaborate with the director. Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man), Melissa Rosenberg (Twilight), and Noah Oppenheim (The Maze Runner) have all worked on Highlander scripts at one point or another. Summit, which is now owned by Lionsgate, has been trying to get this franchise started since they secured the Highlander rights in 2008. Maybe Stahelski will be the one to finally get the ball rolling on this long-awaited reboot for them.

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