Title: The Founder
Original Title: The Founder
Year: 2016
Info
- Country: USA Greece
- Language: English
- Length: 115 Minutes (1 hour 55 min)
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Genre: Biography Drama History
- Studios: The Weinstein Company FilmNation Entertainment Faliro House Productions
- Distributor: Diamond Films
- Age rating: 12 (Suitable for 12 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: February 17 2017
- United States: January 20 2017
Plot
The Weinstein Company is producing this film about the beginnings of McDonald's, one of the most famous fast food chains in the world. 'The Founder' is directed by John Lee Hancock, written by Robert Siegel and starring Michael Keaton as the main character.
The 'Birdman' actor plays the role of Ray Kroc, a salesman that met the McDonald's bothers Mac (John Carroll Lynch) and Dick (Nick Offerman) who operated a small hamburger restaurant and dreamed about creating a way to make and serve fast food that everybody would like during the fifties. This film shows the process of creating the world-known fast food company and all the problems Ray Kroc had to become the new owner of the McDonald's restaurants.
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Trivia
Best unmade script
The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2014 Black List; a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.
Ice cream for everyone
Feeling generous after a long day of filming, Michael Keaton rented two ice cream trucks for the film crew after he saw them exhausted.
The Coen Brothers
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen liked the script very much and wanted to direct the film, but they had to turned down because of schedule conflicts with 'Hail, Caesar!'.
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