April 21--Ray Kroc, a milkshake machine distributor who grew up in Oak Park, began building the McDonald's empire through persistence.
"McDonald's can be the new American church, and it ain't just open on Sundays, boys," Michael Keaton, playing Kroc, says in the new trailer for the upcoming movie "The Founder."
Kroc, who died in 1984, opened his first McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines in 1955. He expanded the brand by focusing on the franchise operation. Along the way, he battled with the McDonald brothers (played by Chicago-area native Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch), who pioneered the fast-food style.
"Contracts are like hearts, they're made to be broken," Keaton says in the trailer.
"The Founder," due out Aug. 5, also stars Laura Dern, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson and B.J. Novak.
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