McDormand revealed that she indeed wrote to Amazon’s senior VP of business and corporate development Jeff Blackburn, explaining the story that director Chloé Zhao (the director of 2017’s sleeper hit “The Rider”) was planning to tell.Also Read: 'Nomadland' Film Review: Frances McDormand Hits the Road in Quiet, Lyrical DramaA shot inside the Amazon warehouse in “Nomadland” (Searchlight Pictures)The film, based on Jessica Bruder’s nonfiction book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First