As was announced a few weeks ago, director Richard Linklater is developing a movie based on Eric Schlossers non-fiction FAST FOOD NATION. Since that announcement there has been a lot of speculation as to how he is going to handle the material. In a recent interview with EMPIRE, Linklater went into a little more detail.

Richard Linklater: Eric Schlosser and I, we wrote the script, kind of based on a town in Colorado where all the various sides are represented. It’s sort of the human effects of that industry; I guess that’s how you’d describe it… It’s about the teenagers who work at the fast food places, and immigrant labourers who come across the border, working in the packing plants, and an executive. It’s kind of from different perspectives. It’s the different sides of the fast food industry. Yet another one that’s kind of tricky to put together as a film, but it looks like it’s happening. I’m pretty skeptical of the whole food industry, so it should be interesting."