'Flamin' Hot Cheetos' Biopic Can Only Exist If Flamed by Everyone on Twitter First

The 'Flamin' Hot' movie actually has a good story to tell.

Flamin Hot Cheetos
Image via Getty/John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/MCT
Flamin Hot Cheetos

Hear us out.

Fox Searchlight and DeVon Franklin just green-lit a film, Flamin' Hot, about the famed Cheetos snack. The movie will follow the rags-to-riches story of Richard Montañez, the son of a Mexican immigrant who invented the spicy rendition of the Cheeto.

Variety reports that Montañez started out picking grapes on a migrant farm in Southern California before he was hired to work as a janitor at Frito-Lay. And it was while working there that he proposed the idea for Flamin' Hot Cheetos, which later moved him up the ladder to land a job as a corporate executive. The snack went on to be super popular as well; Katy Perry even dressed up dressed up as one for Halloween in 2014.

52yEFdcQ

But there's no stopping Twitter's ridicule re: a film based on the invention of spicy Cheetos.

This isn't the first biopic to tell the tale of a business mogul in recent years. Back in 2010, Columbia Pictures released the Jesse Einsenberg-led film The Social Network, about how Facebook became the definitive social media platform. Then there was 2016's The Founder with Michael Keaton as snaky McDonald's exec Ray Kroc. Now, Montañez's story will be told on the big screen as well. Lewis Colick, who's known for his work on Ladder 49 and Charlie St. Cloud, is set to write the film.

Latest in Pop Culture