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STATEMENT OF INTENT __ If you thought Adam McKay’s , a biopic of former US Vice President Dick Cheney, would be “traditional, by-the-numbers [and] dusty”, that’s ruled out with the opening disclaimer, which declares Cheney is a shadowy figure, “but we did our fucking best”. “I wanted to show that this is an unusual story,” says McKay. “There were areas of Cheney’s life where we had to go, ‘We don’t know this part!’”