{"id":10459,"date":"2020-08-05T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=10459"},"modified":"2020-08-05T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T11:28:12","slug":"netflix-announces-limited-series-king-of-america-amy-adams-and-adam-mckay-re-team-for-powerful-new-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/netflix-announces-limited-series-king-of-america-amy-adams-and-adam-mckay-re-team-for-powerful-new-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Announces Limited Series &#8220;King Of America&#8221;; Amy Adams And Adam McKay Re-team For Powerful New Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NetflixLogo.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8777\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Logline:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Kings of America\u00a0<\/em>centers on the stories of three powerful women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Format:<\/strong>\u00a0Limited Series, Drama<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amy Adams\u00a0<\/strong>(<em>Sharp Objects, Vice<\/em>) will star as one of the leads and executive produce via her production company Bond Group Entertainment along with\u00a0<strong>Stacy O\u2019Neil.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Adam McKay<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Succession, Vice<\/em>)is attached to direct the first episode and executive produce along with\u00a0<strong>Betsy Koch<\/strong>\u00a0via Hyperobject Industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adams and McKay re-team for\u00a0<em>Kings of America<\/em>\u00a0after most recently working together on\u00a0<em>Vice<\/em>, which went on to receive eight Academy Award nominations, including a Best Supporting Actress nod for Adams. They first collaborated on McKay\u2019s 2006 comedy,\u00a0<em>Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emmy-nominee\u00a0<strong>Diana Son<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Genius: Aretha, 13 Reasons Why<\/em>) will serve as Showrunner\u00a0 and Executive Producer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jess Kimball Leslie<\/strong>\u00a0is the Writer \/ Creator \/ Executive Producer. Kimball is a journalist and author of \u201cI Love My Computer Because My Friends Live In It.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brunson Green<\/strong>\u00a0will serve as Executive Producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logline:\u00a0Kings of America\u00a0centers on the stories of three powerful women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world&#8217;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. Format:\u00a0Limited Series, Drama Amy Adams\u00a0(Sharp&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/netflix-announces-limited-series-king-of-america-amy-adams-and-adam-mckay-re-team-for-powerful-new-drama\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Netflix Announces Limited Series &#8220;King Of America&#8221;; Amy Adams And Adam McKay Re-team For Powerful New Drama<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-10459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online","tag-netflix","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}