Fresh off his back-to-back critical praise in “Birdman” and “Spotlight” it looks like actor Michael Keaton might have another shot at gold with “The Founder”.
The Weinstein Company has released the trailer for their new drama starring Michael Keaton and directed by “Saving Mister Banks” filmmaker John Lee Hancock. Feel free to give it a watch.
The film tells the story of how Ray Kroc turned a small burger business into the chain it’s known as today. The script for this film has been floating around for a number of years. It even appeared on 2014’s Blacklist of Unproduced Scripts. For those who don’t know, it’s a list of scripts that many critics and Hollywood professionals name as the best scripts that for whatever reason haven’t been made into movies. Some stay on that list, others get recognized and use that notoriety to get produced which is most likely what happened here. The script (which was written by “The Wrestler” scribe Robert D Siegel) has been described as similar in tone as “The Social Network” or “There Will Be Blood”.
