"WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT ADAM McKAY?".

In their first meeting at McKay's house, DiCaprio asked what kind of tone the film would have, and McKay mentioned the 1976 film Network (which "might be my all-time favorite movie"), Dr. Strangelove, and the 1951 Billy Wilder film Ace in the Hole, which starred Kirk Douglas as a cynical reporter who gins up a media circus. McKay was producing more and more movie and TV projects, often without Ferrell, even if Ferrell's name was on them as an executive producer (like HBO's Succession, which McKay cast and produces). In 2008, McKay, Ferrell, and Reilly made Step Brothers, a slapstick gross-out movie that made $128 million but also seemed to play out the possibilities of what McKay and Ferrell had been doing for a decade. Features McKAY HAS AN IDEA FOR HOW A PROFILE OF ADAM McKAY SHOULD BEGIN. [Extracted from the article]