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Vice‘s Adam McKay and Amy Adams are reuniting for Netflix drama Kings of America. The limited series will star the Sharp Objects alum as one of three powerful women who become connected through Walmart, the world’s largest company.
Kings of America will dramatize the ongoing class action suit against Walmart, in which 1.5 million current and former female Walmart employees allege that the company engaged in wage discrimination. According to Netflix, the limited series’ official description is as follows: “Kings of America centers on the stories of three powerful women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world’s largest company: a Walmart heiress, a maverick executive, and a longtime Walmart saleswoman and preacher who dared to fight against the retail giant in the biggest class action lawsuit in US history.”
Adams will star as one of the three leads and executive produce through her Bond Group Entertainment banner with Stacy O’Neil. McKay will direct the drama’s first episode and executive produce alongside Betsy Koch via Hyperobject Industries.
This is not the first time that Adams and McKay have collaborated on a project. The duo most recently worked together on Vice, McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic; the film went on to receive eight Oscar nominations, including a Best Supporting Actress nod for Adams’ performance as Lynne Cheney. More than 10 years prior, the two joined forces on 2006 comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, in which Adams played Ricky Bobby’s (Will Ferrell) former assistant and love interest.
The duo is joined by a host of top behind-the-scenes talent, including showrunner and executive producer Diana Son (Genius: Aretha, 13 Reasons Why); writer, creator, and executive producer Jess Kimball Leslie (author of I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live In It), and executive producer Brunson Green (The Help).
Netflix’s Kings of America announcement comes just one day after Deadline reported that the streaming giant is in talks to purchase Adams’ The Woman in the Window from Disney. The thriller was originally slated for a May 2020 release, but it was pushed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
