Amy Adams and Adam McKay Re-Teaming to Make Wal-Mart Limited Series KINGS OF AMERICA for Netflix
Actress Amy Adams, star of films like Enchanted, American Hustle, The Muppets, Man of Steel, The Fighter, Vice, and the HBO limited series Sharp Objects, is teaming back up with Adam McKay, who directed, wrote, and executive-produced the films Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Vice, which Adams starred in.
The pair are making a new limited series called Kings of America, which is based on a true story about three women whose stories are linked to Wal-Mart.
Deadline reports the following synopsis:
Kings of America centers on the stories of three powerful women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world’s largest company: a Walmart heiress, a maverick executive, and a longtime Walmart saleswoman and preacher who dared to fight against the retail giant in the biggest class action lawsuit in US history.
Adams will play one of the leading ladies, and McKay is set to direct at least the first episode. Both Adams and McKay will executive produce the project. The limited series was picked up by Netflix just before the pandemic hit, and is the second collaboration Adams is in with the streamer, after news hit this week that they’ve bought the rights to her latest film, The Woman in the Window.
This sounds like an interesting story, and a great collaboration. Are you interested in the series Kings of America?