Obama project takes aim at Trump

FORMER US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are producing for Netflix an adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk, a critique of Donald Trump’s rise to power.

The video-on-demand platform announced a year ago that the former first couple had entered into a multi-year agreement to produce and series with Netflix.

Netflix yesterday unveiled the initial projects for Higher Ground Productions, the Obamas’ production company in partnership with the streaming service.

Among them was the adaptation of Lewis’s book in “nonfiction” form, Netflix said in a films statement. Several of Lewis’s books have already been adapted for cinema, including The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.

His latest work, published last year, describes the inner workings of the US government while offering a very critical picture of President Trump and his team.