Adam McKay doesn’t make insignificant movies anymore. The Anchorman filmmaker has found his calling by using humor to explore thorny, hot-button subjects whether it be with The Big Short, Vice, or last year’s polarizing Don’t Look Up. And now for his next film McKay is taking on the issue of “big dirty money.”
The news was revealed by McKay [via Deadline] during a Tribeca Film Festival panel, and it sounds like he’s going back into The Big Short and The Other Guys territory…
“If the last movie [“Don’t Look Up”] was about the outcome of what’s broken about us, that we’re staring at the collapse of the livable climate, this one is more about the actual arterial blocks in our hearts, what’s causing it, which is, of course, big, dirty money. And it’s a comedy as well … blended with drama, but I would overall call it a comedy.”
McKay’s films haven’t always been for me, but I’ll admit he’s more to my liking now because he takes on big subjects others won’t touch. If corporate greed and corruption is in his radar now, and he can make it funny, then I’m all for it.
