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Michael Bay is pro­duc­ing a dystopi­an thriller about Trump’s America

26 Jan 2017

Words by Lena Hanafy

A man in military uniform operating a large camera on a stand, surrounded by smoke and rubble.
A man in military uniform operating a large camera on a stand, surrounded by smoke and rubble.
Will Lit­tle Amer­i­ca be a case of the blind lead­ing the blind?

A dystopi­an action-thriller is in the works cour­tesy of Michael Bay and fel­low pro­duc­ers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller. Lit­tle Amer­i­ca will report­ed­ly depict a near-future US in eco­nom­ic tur­moil thanks to a Trump-like pres­i­dent, leav­ing the coun­try at the mer­cy of its debts to China.

The sto­ry sees a for­mer sol­dier hired by a Chi­nese bil­lion­aire to res­cue his miss­ing daugh­ter from this volatile envi­ron­ment. Rowan Athale is on board to write and direct, with the film being billed as a mod­ern-day riff on John Carpenter’s cult favourite from 1981Escape From New York.

The fact that an anti-Trump film is already in the works is hard­ly sur­pris­ing giv­en Hollywood’s pen­chant for satiris­ing the domes­tic polit­i­cal cli­mate. It’s the pres­ence of an out­ward­ly gung-ho film­mak­er like Michael Bay which is like­ly to raise eye­brows. Lit­tle Amer­i­ca indeed.

To be fair, it’s unclear at this stage whether the project is intend­ed to be a cri­tique of the Trump admin­is­tra­tion, or whether it will sim­ply be an exer­cise in com­mod­i­fy­ing a polit­i­cal cli­mate which has nev­er felt more divid­ed. What do you think? Let us know @LWLies

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