more fast food drama

I was a bit surprised to hear that Rick Linklater's next project will be a dramatization of the all-too-real Fast Food Nation. The book is a sprawling exploration of cultural and economic issues surrounding the McMeal, so it was hard to imagine how this would play out. From a recent interview with the UK's Empire magazine, it's beginning to sound a little like Slacker with more meat, so to speak. Money quote:

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 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.

Linklater is skilled with character-driven narratives (see: Tape, Before Sunset), and there's no idea too big for him to film (see: Waking Life), so I'm guessing this could really work. You go, Rick.