McDonald's Story Gets A Film

THR says that John Lee Hancock ("Saving Mr. Banks") is in negotiations to direct "The Founder," a film about the rise of the largest fast food chain in the world -McDonald's.

Written by Robert Siegel ("Big Fan"), the film follows how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met  Mac and Dick McDonal, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' quick system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

Jeremy Renner and Don Handfield are producing the pic

The tone of the project is said to have that cruel, take no prisoners mentality of the likes of "The Social Network" and "There Will Be Blood".