Beaufoy, Kerr take up new writing assignments
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, The Poison Kitchen adaptations in the works
Simon Beaufoy (photo), adapted screenplay Oscar and BAFTA winner for Slumdog Millionaire [+see also:
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Simon Cornwell, Stephen Cornwell and Rhodri Thomas will produce.
Meanwhile prolific British novelist Philip Kerr will adapt The Poison Kitchen from the eponymous chapter in Ron Rosenbaum’s bestseller Explaining Hitler. The Poison Kitchen was the phrase used by Adolf Hitler to describe journalists from The Munich Post who ran critical pieces about him in the 1920s and the early 1930s before he came to power in 1933.
Robert Schwentke (Red) is attached to direct. Robert Kulzer and Margo Klewans of Germany’s Constantin Film will produce.
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