Netflix have cancelled production on Adam McKay's Average Height, Average Build, a movie that was set to star Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Pattinson.
McKay made his name through comedies like Anchorman and Step Brothers, but over the last decade, he has become an awards darling through movies like The Big Short, Vice and Don't Look Up.
His last project, Don't Look Up, was a scathing satirical comedy focused on the public's ambivalence toward a meteor hurtling to earth. It was a pointed metaphor for the real-life climate change crisis which continues to be ignored by certain politicians.
McKay's next movie was set to be a comedy-drama that would focus on a serial killer who attempts to get into politics in order to make the law more "murder friendly".
However, Deadline have reported that the director has left the project to focus on another movie about climate change.
Netflix are not willing to move ahead with McKay's involvement, so for now the project is dead.
Speaking at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, he said his next movie would be about "dirty money".
“If the last movie was about the outcome of what’s broken about us, that we’re staring at the collapse of the liveable climate, this one is more about the actual arterial blocks in our hearts, what’s causing it, which is, of course, big, dirty money.
"And it’s a comedy as well … blended with drama, but I would overall call it a comedy.”
Serious subject matter for McKay
Plots around McKay's recent movies have surrounded the banking collapse in 2008, vice president Dick Cheney's influence over the Iraq War, and climate change.
He says it is important to retain one's sense of humour when dealing with serious subjects.
“I don’t think that has to be separate from being serious and emotional and profound," the director explained.
"I think you can laugh about something while still recognising that it is serious.”
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