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Eva Longoria to Direct Snack Inventor’s Flamin’ Hot Biopic

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Given how much you dream of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, it only makes sense to take a closer look at the American dream that brought them to your deli, bodega, and/or supermarket in the first place. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Eva Longoria will be directing Flamin’ Hot, a biopic about Richard Montanez, the first-generation Mexican-American Frito-Lay janitor turned executive who created the spicy snack. The Fox Searchlight biopic will reportedly follow Montanez as his delicious brain child changes the company’s financial trajectory, as well as his own. And, depending how far you live from the grocery store, potentially yours too.

Eva Longoria to Direct Snack Inventor’s Flamin’ Hot Biopic