A movie about the fast food industry – with a bite. Yahoo News discusses some of the problems and processes involved in bringing it to the big screen.
Journalist Eric Schlosser, author of “Fast Food Nation,” said he struggled to find a publisher for his 2001 nonfiction book that became a surprise bestseller. Five years later, Schlosser said he ran into similar problems trying turning the book — an indictment of the U.S. fast food industry subtitled “The Dark Side of the All-American Meal” — into a film of the same name. It opened in U.S. cinemas on Friday.
“I spent more than a year trying to get a documentary made,” said Schlosser, who met with several networks but said he became troubled by their connections to fast food advertisers. “In the end I just felt uncomfortable,” he told Reuters. “I would rather a film never be made than a film be made that was a sellout, a film that took out the sharp edges and smoothed them over a little bit.”
Link to the full Yahoo News article