Remember Super Size Me? The 2004 documentary that was nominated for an Oscar but nearly killed Morgan Spurlock? Well, we’re doing that again — almost exactly.
On Wednesday, Netflix announced a new doc starring British comedian Mo Gilligan. Titled Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, the feature-length film will see its protagonist “eating nothing but fried chicken” three times a day for 28 straight days. Spoiler alert: It will be delicious at first, but ultimately not good for his health.
Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy hails from Mindhouse, the production company that recently brought us the documentary Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, which debuted this March on Netflix. Big Chicken marks Gilligan’s first Netflix doc; it is a “bold experiment,” Netflix says. (It is, it’s just one that has pretty much been done before.)
On August 5, Big Chicken will expose “the hidden costs behind our cravings,” according to Netflix. “Over the course of the month, [Gilligan] embarks on an eye-opening journey from South London to the United States to reveal the historical origins of fried chicken and the social, economic and industrial forces driving our mass consumption of it — from fast-food chains to large-scale farming — and the impact on our health, our planet and the way we eat.”
