Adam McKay: Hollywood's Oscar-winning climate extremist



You may not know Adam McKay’s name, but chances are you love his movies and TV shows.

“Anchorman.” “Step Brothers.” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.” “Succession.”

McKay is one of Hollywood’s most prolific and profitable creators. He’s also obsessed with promoting the climate change agenda on and off screen.

The notion that an Oscar-winning filmmaker would help target timeless works of art seems like a juicy story. So far, the mainstream media, by and large, hasn’t connected McKay to attacks his money helped make possible.

And he’s taken some radical steps along the way.

McKay spent years alongside Will Ferrell, pooling their talents for big, bawdy comedies. That formula worked for a while, but McKay’s inner artiste apparently wanted more.

His 2015 dramedy “The Big Short” spun from the best-selling tome of the same name by Michael Lewis. The film found him fusing laughs with social commentary, all from a rigorously left-leaning agenda. The film earned McKay a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.

Suddenly his days of cracking wise with Ferrell were over. Meet Adam McKay, full-time culture warrior.

He wrote and directed the hit piece “Vice” (2018), an assault on both Vice President Dick Cheney and Republicans in general, before pooling his creative energies to a project more in line with his eco-passions.

His 2021 film “Don’t Look Up” gave Netflix a streaming smash. The satirical smart bomb mixed the auteur’s wit with a full-on climate change metaphor. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a scientist trying to convince the president (Meryl Streep) that a comet is hurtling toward the earth.

The fictional politicians prove hard to convince.

McKay explained his rationale for the film to the New York Times.

“I’m under no illusions that one film will be the cure to the climate crisis. ... But if it inspires conversation, critical thinking, and makes people less tolerant of inaction from their leaders, then I’d say we accomplished our goal.”

Now, he’s going back to the eco-well. Twice.

He’s set to produce “Stormbound,” a documentary close-up of professional storm chasers. The film, set for a 2025 release, focuses on the alleged impact climate change has on extreme weather events.

He’s also in talks to direct a separate climate change feature after dropping plans to make “Average Height, Average Build,” a conventional thriller that was set to star Amy Adams and Robert Pattinson.

The new project will reportedly be called “Greenhouse,” and the subject falls in McKay’s sweet spot. The drama is based on David Wallace-Wells’ book “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.” Sam Rockwell and Amy Irving, who previously costarred in “Vice,” may anchor the doom-and-gloom story.

McKay is hardly alone in weaponizing Hollywood product to spread the climate change gospel. The subject comes up frequently on screens large and small, from references in shows like HBO’s “The Last of Us” to major plot points in “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.”

Recently, we learned of a new “tool” that coaxes storytellers to fill their screenplays with climate change alarmism. The Climate Reality Check works like the feminist Bechdel test does, analyzing stories to see if they sufficiently address the environment.

Journalist John Fund recently reported on how “green billionaires” are trying to cajole screenwriters into adding even more climate change alarmism into Hollywood stories.

Recent films like “Barbie,” “Nyad,” and “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part I” all passed. Barely.

Except McKay doesn’t silo his climate change activism to the big screen.

In 2022, the director/producer wrote a $4 million check to the Climate Emergency Fund. That group is behind some of the attacks on precious art installations across the globe. The fund funnels money to the eco-activists and their various splinter groups, hoping to gain attention for their cause.

Art works by Vincent van Gogh, Sandro Botticelli, Pablo Picasso, and Umberto Boccioni have been targeted over the past few years. None have been damaged to date, but museum experts warn their fragile states make them vulnerable to future violence.

The notion that an Oscar-winning filmmaker would help target timeless works of art seems like a juicy story. So far, the mainstream media, by and large, hasn’t connected McKay to attacks his money helped make possible. Few, if any, journalists have pressed McKay on the topic.

Last year, McKay promised to keep on funding similar protests.

“I stand with those taking action to defend the climate, to wake up the world’s sleeping governments to the terrifying scale of the catastrophe we are now living through.”

Hollywood leftists are creating a January 6 feature film: 'Harrowing and terrifying'



Events that unfolded at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, are headed to the silver screen as filmmakers Billy Ray and Adam McKay set out to adapt the incident for film in the upcoming feature "J6," Deadline reports.

Set to direct the feature is Billy Ray, who is best known for writing the 2013 film "Captain Phillips," starring Tom Hanks as the eponymous Captain Phillips who must save his ship after it is overtaken by Somali pirates. Ray also directed the 2020 miniseries "The Comey Rule," which is a dramatic retelling of former President Donald Trump’s tense relationship with and subsequent firing of FBI Director James Comey.

Producing the feature alongside Ray is satirist Adam McKay. McKay made his name as a writer and director giving life to such hits as "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," "Step Brothers," and "The Other Guys." Most recently, however, McKay has leaned heavily into left-wing political satire, as his recent films "The Big Short," "Vice," and "Don’t Look Up" satirize the American economy, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and the Western response to climate change.

Shortly after the incidents of January 6, Ray visited Washington, D.C., to interview people involved in the kerfuffle. Ray spent time probing the memories of Capitol police officers and various members of Congress who were trapped inside the Capitol as protesters invaded the premises.

“The goal was to do a ground-level view of a momentous day,” said Ray. “It’s about protesters who became rioters and cops who became defenders of democracy.”

Noting that the film is meant to focus on the actual people involved with the event and not the political intrigue surrounding it, Ray said, “Someone else can tell the story of the chaos at the White House on that day. I wanted to stay in the trenches.”

McKay referred to Ray’s script as “harrowing and terrifying.”

McKay’s most recent film, "Don’t Look Up," produced with and released on Netflix, has received substantial critical acclaim as it attempts to lampoon American government, politics, media, and business. It is currently the second most-watched film released on Netflix.

Considering Ray and McKay’s recent works, it is reasonable to assume that "J6" will not paint the average person attending the “Stop the Steal” rally immediately preceding the incident in question in a favorable light.

It’s no secret that Hollywood is dominated by the left wing of American politics. McKay and Ray embody the leftist consensus in film and, in general, entertainment.

From Media To Politicians To ‘The Science,’ No One Survives ‘Don’t Look Up’

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