A new trailer has arrived for John Lee Hancock’s The Founder which places Michael Keaton at the dark heart of The American Dream. Keaton is already lining up a standout role in the forthcoming Spider-Man Homecoming as Vulture, and director Hancock has fine form in the true life adaptations department with The Blind Side and Saving Mr. Banks both doing good business.
Big Fan and The Wrestler writer Robert Siegel wrote the screenplay for the Machiavellian tale of how hungry businessman Ray Kroc took control of the burgeoning McDonald’s fast food restaurant and turned it into one of the world’s largest companies.
Keaton leads as Kroc, with Laura Dern as his long-suffering wife. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch appear as Richard “Dick” and Maurice “Mac” McDonald with Linda Cardellini, B. J. Novak and Patrick Wilson complete the leading cast.
The legal and moral wranglings present at the birth of one of the world’s largest businesses is a tale perfect for the big screen. Hancock’s previous real-life adaptations have always erred on the side of sugary spectacle however Keaton’s ability to create larger than life characters looks set to elevate this one.
The Founder Movie Poster
The Founder is released in UK cinemas on the 17th of February, and in the US on the 20th of January. Here’s the new trailer.
The Founder UK Movie Trailer
The Founder US Movie Trailer
The Founder Movie Synopsis
THE FOUNDER is a drama that tells the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California.
Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
