Culture 'Don't Look Up' Director Adam McKay to Produce Narrative Feature About January 6 Capitol Attacks - Kino Incoming!

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The film will be directed by Billy Ray, known for his work on Showtime series 'The Comey Rule.'

Collider (Archive) - January 21, 2022
by, Jack King

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In news that may leave some questioning the unchecked power of the Adam McKay industrial complex, the Don't Look Up filmmaker is producing a narrative feature film based on the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, reports Deadline. Considered the worst domestic attack on American soil since 9/11, the dramatic events inarguably offer great cinematic potential, so perhaps a big screen adaptation was inevitable. But to paraphrase Jeff Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcolm: "The filmmakers were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, that they didn't stop to think if they should."

The film, currently being made under the title J6, has been scripted and will be directed by Billy Ray, best known as the writer behind the well-received Showtime miniseries The Comey Rule. Yeah, you're remembering correctly: the political drama starring Jeff Daniels as ex-FBI director James Comey, pit against Brendan Gleeson's President Trump. Seems as though Ray has something of a penchant for oddly-timed, real-life political thrillers. What's next, a Fauci biopic with Brad Pitt? Either way, the film is yet to be picked up for distribution, with Deadline confirming that the J6 script will be "shopped to studios and streamers imminently," with early conversations around financing already taking place.

Joining McKay above-the-line will be Todd Schulman, Josh McLaughlin, Cullen Hoback, and the Comey Rule-attached Shane Salerno, previously an executive producer on the Comey/Trump drama.

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To be fair to him, it sounds as though Ray has put in the leg work when it comes to research. According to Deadline, he "traveled to Washington, D.C. within days of the siege, and interviewed a number of the key principles when memories were raw and fresh," including a handful of the first-responders who protected the Capitol. One such officer, Michael Fanone, consulted on the script throughout the process. "The goal was to do a ground-level view of a momentous day," said Ray. "It's about protesters who became rioters and cops who became defenders of democracy. Someone else can tell the story of the chaos at the White House on that day. I wanted to stay in the trenches." Dude certainly isn't devoid of rhetoric.

"Billy has written a screenplay that is not only harrowing and terrifying but is sure to become the definitive cinematic document on that gut-wrenching day," McKay added. One might hope it remains the only "cinematic document on that gut-wrenching day," but something tells us that won't be the case.

The film was originally conceived as another limited series, but Ray cut the original 300 pages of scripted material into a 120-page feature script. It's yet to receive a release date, or indeed, confirmation that it's actually being made, but more as we have it.
 
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I haven't seen Don't Look Up because the subject matter was enough of a glaring red light for me to steer clear like I was an airplane and it was one of those fuckoff huge midwestern radio towers, but I have seen Vice, his movie before that about Dick Cheney.
If you aren't a fan of film school tier wacky editing and constant 4th wall-breaking asides from the director's self-insert narrator, you won't like Adam McKay movies, no matter what subject matter they cover. The performances in Vice were all amazing and I still ended the movie disappointed by how irritating it was to watch.
 
Kino incoming, huh?

The film, currently being made under the title J6, has been scripted and will be directed by Billy Ray, best known as the writer behind the well-received Showtime miniseries The Comey Rule. Yeah, you're remembering correctly: the political drama starring Jeff Daniels as ex-FBI director James Comey, pit against Brendan Gleeson's President Trump.
So, in other words, it’s basically partisan hackery being produced by a man who directed Anchorman.

I guess this is a Clown World after all. We have actual “funny” people now acting mature and serious due to personal politics.
 
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I broke the story on the insurrection 2021 thread this thing is going be a gayer version of patriots day even though I liked that film
 
Considered the worst domestic attack on American soil since 9/11
Anyone who uses the word "considered" without "by" and the name of the specific person or group making the subsequent declarative statement should have their typing fingers broken.

Which is all of their fingers, I guess.

Note it's not "domestic terrorism," it's a "domestic attack." Any random shooting with two or more victims is worse than this "domestic attack."
 
Anyone who uses the word "considered" without "by" and the name of the specific person or group making the subsequent declarative statement should have their typing fingers broken.

Which is all of their fingers, I guess.

Note it's not "domestic terrorism," it's a "domestic attack." Any random shooting with two or more victims is worse than this "domestic attack."
The people who compared it to 9/11 I got three words to say “go to hell”
 
Speaking of this piece of shit’s recent trashopic, I can’t wait until the world finally hits that new Ice Age that’s definitely up on the horizon.

The Earth isn’t going to exhaust in flames from humanity’s evolutionary dominance, but will re-freeze as the natural climate cycles back to that.
 
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good look with that.

Im working on my own movie about something like that...
Its called the 51th star and its a modern interpretation of the 1954 attack on congress. a group of young latinas that all look like AOC start firing at congressmember for the statehood of puerto rico. it will be a musical.
 
good look with that.

Im working on my own movie about something like that...
Its called the 51th star and its a modern interpretation of the 1954 attack on congress. a group of young latinas that all look like AOC start firing at congressmember for the statehood of puerto rico. it will be a musical.
One creative suggestion; play "You Can't Always Get What You Want" over the closing credits. I know it's a bit on the nose but I think it'd work well.
 
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