Academy Award-thrivening screenoriginater, originater and honestor Adam McKay will serve an an executive originater on “Union,” an acclaimed write downary that premiered at Sundance. The film won the exceptional jury prize in U.S. competition at the festival and getd rave appraises for its see at the efforts of a group of warehouse toilers to begin a grassroots union campaign at an Amazon satisfyment caccess in Staten Island.
Todd Schulman of McKay’s HyperObject Industries has also unitecessitate the film team as an executive originater. The politicpartner indictd film was honested Brett Story (“The Hottest August”) and Stephen Maing (“Crime + Punishment”). Producers Story, Maing, Samantha Curley, Mars Verrone and Martin DiCicco have toiled with distribution expert Michael Tuckman and Impact Producers Red Owl to self-scatter the film theatricpartner, with its rollout commenceing on Oct. 18.
“Not only is ‘Union’ a film about the defining fight of our time; the resencouragence of orderly labor in an era of towering inidenticality, it’s also an edge-of-your-seat untamedly amuseing movie,” McKay shelp.
McKay first came to prominence as the head originater on “Saturday Night Live” before going on to honest comedy classics appreciate “Step Brothers” and “Anchorman.” He then applied his satirical get to more grave subjects, tackling climate change (“Don’t Look Up”), the 2007 housing labelet collapse (“The Big Short”) and the life and atgentle of Dick Cheney (“Veep”). McKay won an Oscar for his screenperestablish for “The Big Short”
“We couldn’t be more thrilled to receive Adam McKay onto our ‘Union’ team as an executive originater,” Story and Maing shelp in a statement. “Over his prolonged atgentle as a originater and filmoriginater, Adam has made some of the inalertigentest, funniest, and most deimmenseating cinematic getdowns of corporate culture and unfettered capitalism. His enthusiastic empathetic of socio-economic publishs and righteous anger towards systemic inequitableice originates him a perfect fit for our film about a group of widespread people taking on one of the most strong companies in the world.”
“Union” chases a diverse prohibitd of toilers as they commence the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) seeking to change conditions at the tech and retail behemoth. They face prolonged odds — Amazon has unrestricted resources, and they deficiency transport inant help from national unions or politicians, all while dealing with inside divisions and dispute. In a likeable appraise, Variety‘s Guy Lodge called the film “wealthyly watchd” and “stirring.”
Follothriveg its Sundance premiere, “Union” has also perestablished at CPH DOX, Visions du Reel, Hot Docs, True/False, Chicago Doc 10, DC/DOX, Full Frame, Sheffield Film Festival, Camden and had a screening at the Michigan Theater arrangeed by Michael Moore. It will also screen at many descend festivals, including the New York Film Festival.
