Obamas acquire rights to book detailing Trump transition chaos

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Barack and Michelle Obama are using their newly-acquired influence as movie and TV producers to open up a new front on the war with President Trump.

The former president and First Lady have acquired the rights to Michael Lewis' book "The Fifth Risk" under their multimillion-dollar Netflix deal clinched earlier this year that will see them producing films and series for the streaming service.

Lewis authored "The Big Short," a book that detailed the 2006 housing crash, which was subsequently turned into a 2016 Oscar-winning movie. His new book lays bare the apparent chaos and mismanagement at the Departments of Energy, Agriculture and Commerce during the transition from Obama to President Trump’s administration.

The possible series based on Lewis’ book isn’t yet a done deal, but it’s a project the former president and his wife is considering. Lewis revealed the news about the Obamas and his book in a podcast with Katie Couric on Thursday, Deadline reported.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/obamas-acquire-rights-to-book-detailing-trump-transition-chaos/ar-BBPd9vf?li=BBnb7Kz

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. A good step

towards combating the trumptv-type onslaught we've endured for....what seems like decades.

[underthematrix]

2. The irony is not lost on anyone. I really hope the book is turned into a movie.

I put the book on my Xmas list.

[Cha]

3. KR!

[George II]

4. That will be an instant best seller. Millions want to know how inept trump is from the inside.

[FakeNoose]

5. How cool! This absolutely rocks

I hope they do something like "The Big Short" because it made things understandable for the non-Wall Street people like most of us are. I recommend Jeff Bridges to play Cheeto, he'd be great!

He'd have to shave the beard and gain a little weight. But Jeff Bridges would be awesome. What do you guys think?

[Ilsa]

6. I think he is too sexy to play Dump. nt

[FakeNoose]

7. Make up will fix that

I agree he's a sexy man, even close to 70 years old. Also he's a great actor.

[JHB]

10. If he can be de-aged for a Tron movie...

...he can be flabbed-up for a Trump movie.

[Hestia]

8. Here's Michael Lewis' initial reporting from Vanity Fair

https://tinyurl.com/ydb73m7w

WHY THE SCARIEST NUCLEAR THREAT MAY BE COMING FROM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE
Donald Drumpf’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once campaigned to abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The department’s budget is now on the chopping block. But does anyone in the White House really understand what the Department of Energy actually does? And what a horrible risk it would be to ignore its extraordinary, life-or-death responsibilities?


(He also wrote The Blind Side - not the movie - the long form journalism article & book)

[CrispyQ]

9. "The Big Short" was awesome. -nt