Adam McKay, the Oscar-winning director of The Big Short, is to follow up that film with one about Dick Cheney, US vice president to George Bush for both of the latter’s terms of office.
According to Deadline, McKay has been working on the script well before Donald Trump’s election victory; in fact since The Big Short’s impressive Academy awards showing, where it was nominated for five Oscars (including best director), winning one for McKay and Charles Randolph for best adapted screenplay.
There is no word yet on casting for the new film, but Cheney was previously played on screen by Richard Dreyfuss in the Oliver Stone-directed W, the 2008 biopic of George W Bush.
During the Clinton presidency Cheney became CEO of oil services company Halliburton.