Kate Mckinnon Joins Movie About 2016 Fox News Scandal
The still-untitled movie about the Fox News sexual harassment scandal just keeps adding big names.
Kate McKinnon is the latest star to join the Annapurna Pictures drama, Deadline reports. She joins the likes of Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Allison Janney, Margot Robbie, and John Lithgow. The script comes from Academy Award winner Charles Randolph, and Jay Roach is directing.
The film centers on the problems at Fox News under its former chairman and CEO Roger Ailes and on the women who spoke out against him. Their allegations led to Ailes's resignation in 2016 after numerous claims came to light (he denied them). As such, many of film's characters are based on actual people, such as Ailes (Lithgow), Megyn Kelly (Theron), and Gretchen Carlson (Kidman). That's not the case for McKinnon's character, though. She'll play a fictional producer.
McKinnon most recently appeared in "The Spy Who Dumped Me" and is best known as a comedy actress. However, she'll get a chance to play a very different kind of role in the Fox News drama.
A release date for the upcoming project has not yet been announced.
[via: Deadline]