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Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. McKay began his career as a head writer for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 1995 to 2001. After leaving SNL, McKay collaborated with comedian Will Ferrell on his comedy films Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), and The Other Guys (2010). Ferrell and McKay later co-wrote and co-produced numerous television series and films, with McKay himself co-producing their website, Funny or Die, through their company, Gary Sanchez Productions. Aside from working with Ferrell, McKay wrote and directed the satirical films The Big Short (2015), Vice (2018), and Don't Look Up (2021). McKay won an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and a Critics' Choice Award for adapting the screenplay of The Big Short. In 2019, McKay founded Hyperobject Industries, a production company. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam McKay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The movie is set in the chaotic world of global diplomacy during an unprecedented worldwide crisis: the world’s top 10% wealthiest individuals have decided to form a new global state and secede from their respective countries. They plan to use their collective resources to create a utopia on a massive, self-sustaining luxury island called Elysium One, leaving behind everyone else to fend for themselves as the world spirals into chaos. At the heart of this absurd crisis are two unlikely anti-heroes: Greg McAllister , a laid-back, morally ambiguous PR consultant hired to spin the global exodus as "the next step in human evolution," and Lila Stanton , a sharp-witted, cynical policy advisor secretly working to expose the whole operation as a massive scam. Together, they navigate a world of corrupt billionaires, bumbling world leaders, and corporate elites, all while trying to figure out if they should sell out or save the world from collapse.
