Details about Adam McKay's new movie, reportedly titled Average Height, Average Build, have been revealed. The filmmaker rose to fame for countless comedic collaborations with Will Ferrell – including Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and Step Brothers – before pivoting to socially-aware dramedies like The Big Short, Vice, and Don't Look Up. The latter trio of films have garnered critical acclaim, multiple Academy Awards, and have made McKay one of the premier filmmakers working today.
Now, details about McKay's Don't Look Up follow-up have reportedly been revealed, including its title, plot, and star-studded cast. Per Puck News, the film is titled Average Height, Average Build and follows a serial killer who becomes involved in politics in order to alter the law to be more beneficial for murderers like himself. Robert Pattinson is attached to star seemingly as the serial killer, with Robert Downey Jr., Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, and Danielle Deadwyler attached in supporting roles. McKay is planning to shoot the film during late summer in Boston, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Average Height, Average Build Already Sounds Very Promising
With a politically-charged premise and a star-studded cast, Average Height, Average Build already sounds like a quintessential McKay movie. The Big Short – starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt – was an entertaining exploration of how the United States housing bubble triggered the 2008 financial crisis. McKay followed that up with Vice, an unconventional Dick Cheney biopic that chronicled his path to becoming the most powerful vice president in American history starring Bale, Carell, Adams, and Sam Rockwell.
McKay's most recent movie Don't Look Up was an extended allegory of humanity's indifference to the climate crisis that starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, and many more. It's unclear where McKay's next movie will land, which is also described as an "allegorical dramedy," though with Don't Look Up becoming one of Netflix’s most-watched movies ever, the streamer is a likely landing spot, though they are not currently bidding on the project. McKay is making the rounds pitching his new movie which, like his past projects, carries a big budget for a political dramedy.
McKay previously teased his Don't Look Up follow-up, saying that his climate crisis satire was about "what’s broken about us," and his next movie would be about the "big, dirty money" that is clogging society's arteries. After focusing on the financial crisis, Dick Cheney, and the climate crisis, it sounds like McKay will be lampooning money in politics with his next film, Average Height, Average Build. Early on, it sounds like McKay has another hit on his hands.
Source: Puck News/THR