The Founder‘s Production Designer on Building McDonald’s & More
A semi-fictionalized account of the takeover of the original McDonald’s franchise by milkshake salesman and the man typically referred to as its “founder,” Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), John Lee Hancock’s The Founder opened this past weekend. It is notable for several things, of which some, like Michael Keaton’s performance as ambitiously malevolent Kroc, have been getting lots of press, while others, like its thoroughness in depicting an accurate slice of the 1950s,
Micheal Keaton Dreams of Milkshakes in New The Founder Clips
While it might seem like McDonald's as been around since forever, and that the fast food chain's now iconic menu items, such as egg McMuffins and milkshakes were no-brainers, this isn't actually the case. As John Lee Hancock's The Founder makes clear, much of what has sustained the franchise's iron grip on Americans' guilty eating habits (and, now, much of the globes) was met with resistance and outright mockery to begin with.
Watch Michael Keaton as McDonalds Honcho Ray Kroc in new The Founder Trailer
Like a McDonald's cheeseburger, it will be hard to resist watching Micheal Keaton as the ubiquitous fast food chain's creator Ray Krock in The Founder. Directed by John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks), The Founder delivers the true story of how Ray Kroc, a down-on-his-luck salesman from Illinois, had a fateful meeting with brothers Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California that managed to turn out food in astonshingly little time.
