September 25, 2024
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Filmmaker Adam McKay will be an executive producer for the documentary 'Union,' which chronicles a unionization push among Amazon fulfillment center workers in Staten Island.
Oscar-winning director Adam McKay will serve as an executive producer for a documentary about labor rights.
Titled "Union," the film follows a group of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island and their efforts to unionize. It debuted at Sundance Film Festival to much acclaim, winning a special jury prize. The documentary will hit theaters beginning Oct. 18, Variety reported.
Directors Brett Story and Stephen Maing helmed the movie, and Todd Schulman from McKay's production company HyperObject Industries is also an executive producer. Story, Maing and the other producers of "Union" will self-distribute the film.
McKay has made "some of the smartest, funniest, and most devastating cinematic takedowns of corporate culture and unfettered capitalism," Story and Maing said in a statement. "(McKay's) keen understanding of socio-economic issues and righteous anger towards systemic injustice makes him a perfect fit for our film about a group of ordinary people taking on one of the most powerful companies in the world."
McKay's previous works include the politically charged films "The Big Short," "Vice" and "Don't Look Up," all of which garnered multiple Academy Award nominations. McKay, who grew up in Malvern, won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for "The Big Short." He also directed "Anchorman."
"Not only is 'Union' a film about the defining fight of our time; the resurgence of organized labor in an era of towering inequality, it's also an edge-of-your-seat wildly entertaining movie," McKay said in a statement.
Among McKay also is producing a 1980s-set vampire thriller, "Flesh of the Gods," that stars Oscar Isaac and Kristen Stewart. His next gig in the director's chair is a new film about climate change, but no other details about the project are known.
Watch the trailer for "Union" below.
