Barack and Michelle Obama Are Adapting a Book Critical of Trump for Their First Netflix Project

[babylonsister]

Barack and Michelle Obama Are Adapting a Book Critical of Trump for Their First Netflix Project
Sam Gillette
November 01, 2018 09:20 PM


Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama‘s first project for Netflix will be an adaption of a scathing book about President Trump‘s administration, The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, according to the latest episode of Katie Couric’s podcast.

“[President Obama] optioned the book to come up with a series for Netflix to help people better understand the government,” Katie Couric said during her interview with Lewis, who broke the news.

In May, the Obamas announced their decision to produce a variety of content for Netflix through their company Higher Ground Productions.

“We hope to cultivate and curate the talented, inspiring, creative voices who are able to promote greater empathy and understanding between peoples,” the former president previously said, according to a Netflix press release, “and help them share their stories with the entire world.”

The Obamas’ adaption of The Fifth Risk will be their first endeavor in a series production. And it will serve as an entertaining and necessary “civics lesson,” explained Lewis, who is the author of other bestselling books that have been adapted to film, like The Big Short and Moneyball.

As with his other books, in The Fifth Risk Lewis informs and entertains readers about topics that can sometimes be considered tedious. During his interview with Couric, he explained how his book delves into what he sees as the huge issues that Trump’s administration is creating across departments in the federal government — issues that Lewis says are endangering the very stability of the country.

Despite Lewis’ condemnation of Trump, a spokesperson for the Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground, said that The Fifth Risk Netflix project would center around the “civic lessons” it presents and not attack Trump, according to The New York Times.

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[RockRaven]

1. Simply as a giant "F--- You!" to Trump, I love that the Obamas are making money off of

making entertainment critical of Trump. That it a three-fold button push for Trump -- critical media, Obamas, someone else making a buck off of him.

[Cha]

2. Brilliant.. The Obamas continuing to

do their civic duties in the most creative Truth to the Power ways.

let Fuckface Fraud scream and hiss about that.