CBC: Fast food film

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'Fast Food Nation' becoming a movie

Last Updated Fri, 20 May 2005 14:31:38 EDT

CBC Arts

LOS ANGELES - Director Linklater, the filmmaker behind Dazed and

Confused,

is set to make a big-screen version of the book Fast Food Nation.

Written by journalist Schlosser, Fast Food Nation is a damning exploration

of

how restaurant chains like Mc's have changed North American culture.

The book has caused a sensation since it was published in 2001, giving

ammunition to

those who believe that the fast-food industry is responsible for, among other

things, increasing the rate of obesity in the U.S.

Schlosser helped Linklater write the script for the big-screen adaptation.

It's not known if the film will be a documentary, but the book does not have a

straightforward narrative: instead, it is an extended piece of reportage that

follows Schlosser as he travels around the U.S. chronicling the history and

effects

of fast food.

With the likes of Before Sunset and Slacker on his filmography, Austin,

Tex.-based

Linklater is known chiefly as a director of scripted comedies.

The Daily Variety trade paper reported this week that actress Catalina Sandino

Moreno (the -nominated star of Full of Grace) will appear in Fast

Food

Nation – one sign that it may be some sort of hybrid creation.

The film will start shooting in the fall.

Linklater's remake of The Bad News Bears is set to open in July.

Among the claims that Schlosser makes in Fast Food Nation are that American

children

now get about one quarter of their total vegetable servings in the form of

French

fries or potato chips, and that the golden arches are a more widely recognized

symbol than the Christian cross.

Al Pater, PhD; email: old542000@...

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