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The Founder is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Robert Siegel.Starring Michael Keaton as businessman Ray Kroc, the film is based on the story of the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain, which eventually involved into the company's original founders to take control with conniving ruthlessness.
Kroc co-authored the book Grinding It Out, first published in 1977 and reissued in 2016; it served as the basis for a biographical movie about Kroc. [ 44 ] Michael Keaton portrayed Kroc in the 2016 John Lee Hancock film The Founder .
'The Founder' follows Kroc (Michael Keaton) as he convinces Mac (John Carroll Lynch) and Dick (Nick Offerman) that they should franchise McDonald's.
The brothers drew the attention of Ray Kroc, a milkshake mixer salesman for Prince Castle. [11] After they purchased eight of his Multi-Mixers for their San Bernardino, California restaurant, Kroc visited that restaurant in 1954. [12] That year the McDonald brothers hired Kroc as their franchise agent.
In 2015, Keaton appeared as Walter V. Robinson in Tom McCarthy's Academy Award-winning film Spotlight, and in 2016, he starred as businessman Ray Kroc in the biopic The Founder. On July 28, 2016, Keaton was honored with the 2,585th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to film.
While broadly based in reality, the entire movie is a put-on, ... “The Founder,” with Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, the man who changed the world by taking over and franchising McDonald’s ...
Fred Turner has a small reference to his position as a grill operator in the 2016 film The Founder, which portrays the creation of the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain. At a later point in the plot in this same movie, Fred Turner has a much larger presence, during Ray Kroc's successful attempts to open up McDonald's restaurants in the Twin ...
Ray Kroc bought the original McDonald’s from the McDonald brothers after visiting in 1954 and by the next year, he had opened the prototype for what would become a worldwide fast-food legend ...