March 28--The Weinstein Company released the first photo of Michael Keaton as McDonald's entrepreneur Ray Kroc from the set of the upcoming movie "The Founder."
The picture, posted Monday by Entertainment Weekly, shows Keaton with his hands raised outside a Minnesota McDonald's. Kroc, a milkshake machine distributor who grew up in Oak Park, began building the hamburger empire by opening his first McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines in 1955. He died in 1984 at the age of 81.
Laura Dern plays Kroc's first wife, Ethel Fleming. Chicago-area native Nick Offerman, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson and B.J. Novak also star in the movie, due out Aug. 5.
