Deadline’s Learn the Screenplay sequence spotlighting the yr’s most talked-about scripts continues with Flamin’ Scorching, the script from Lewis Colick and Gentefied creator Linda Yvette Chávez that grew to become Eva Longoria‘s function directorial debut.
The rags-to-riches story of Richard Montañez, the Frito-Lay janitor (performed by Jesse Garcia) who turns into the advertising godfather of the spicy-chip revolution, hit the spot straight away with audiences. The pic from Searchlight Photos received the Headliners part’s viewers award after its world premiere at SXSW, after which it grew to become the primary movie to debut concurrently on Hulu and Disney+ when it premiered in June.
Longoria advised Deadline earlier this yr that after sparking to the unique script by Colick (October Sky and Charlie St. Cloud) and coming aboard, her first suggestion was that the story’s standpoint wanted to be Montañez’s.
“That is his model of what occurred,” she mentioned. “I’m not doing the historical past of the Flamin’ Scorching Cheeto from Frito-Lay’s standpoint. I’m making a narrative about this man, and that’s his story.”
The result’s a pic from DeVon Franklin’s Franklin Leisure that follows Montañez as a meals trade disruptor who channeled his Mexican-American heritage to show Flamin’ Scorching Cheetos from a snack into an international phenomenon.
Annie Gonzalez, Emilio Rivera, Dennis Haysbert, Tony Shalhoub, Matt Walsh, Bobby Soto and Pepe Serna spherical out the ensemble forged.
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