Watch: First trailer for 'The Founder' starring Michael Keaton as the man behind McDonald's

Michael Keaton as a "52-year-old, over-the-hill milkshake machine salesman" who built the global corporate empire that is McDonald's? We're in.

'The Founder' is the hotly-anticipated John Lee Hancock film based on the true story of the fast-food empire and its founders Ray Kroc (Keaton), and the McDonald brothers (Nick Offerman, John Caroll Lynch) and all the backstabbing and underhandedness that went into McDonald's becoming the global brand it is today.

Here's the official synopsis and poster:

Written by Robert Siegel (BIG FAN), THE FOUNDER is a drama that tells the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.