Warner Bros. is “Killing Chefs”
Variety is reporting that Warner Bros. Pictures is cooking up another comedy caper about murdered chefs — only this time set in Sin City, one of the world’s new culinary capitals. Eric Gold is producing.
Remake of the 1978 laffer “Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?”–starring George Segal and Jacqueline Bisset — will see its title shortened to “Who is Killing the Great Chefs?”
Studio has hired scribe David A. Goodman to pen the script, with Oliver Platt attached to star in the one of the two lead male roles.
Gold told Daily Variety that it made perfect sense to have the film take place in Las Vegas, where many of the world’s greatest chefs, including the likes of Todd English, Nobu Matsuhisa, Michael Mina and Joachim Splichal, have flocked.
In the updated version, Platt will play a food critic who comes to Vegas to check out the action, reprising the role played by Robert Morley in the original. But when a chef is found murdered in the same way his signature dish is prepared, the critic becomes a suspect. more…
