The Fake Flamin Hot Biopic We Got, And The Real One We Want
Eva Longoria made a biopic about the guy who invented the Flamin Hot Cheeto. Only he didn't actually invent the Flamin Hot Cheeto.
I’ve been obsessed with the story of Eva Longoria’s Flamin Hot biopic, which I finally saw this past week. Luke O’Neill summed it up succinctly: “Part way through the making of the biopic about the inventor of Flamin' Hot cheetos it came out the guy didn't even invent them. They still made the movie anyway.”
The irony is, a movie *about* this embellishing the story, and how much success he had doing that, could've been brilliant. They gave us a rags-to-riches, capitalist fairytale, when they could’ve given us a rags-to-riches, capitalist farce. Luke let me write about it for his wonderful newsletter, Hell World. Go read it there.
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Great piece. It is sort of unfair that Longoria would have to take the brunt of questioning considering the timeline of the production and I get that she would be salty (pun, sorry) about how it impacted her first feature. That being said, her response truly sucks. “Feels like the LA Times would have better things to do.” Says the person who just dedicated like a year of their life or more making a movie about this exact story? A person known for their activism made their first movie about CEO grindset messaging?
Speaking of timing, your PGA example couldn’t have come at a better time.