Although his work up to now – including Flightplan, The Time Traveller’s Wife and Red – has been largely fictional, director Robert Schwentke always seems to be pondering the idea of making something based in fact. Case in point: he’s now attached to make The Poison Kitchen for Constantin Film.
Written by Ninja Assassin’s Matthew Sand (a worrying sign, but we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for now), Kitchen traces the true story of the Muenchener Post, the Munich-based newspaper that traced the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party and was ringing the alarm bells about their plans long before anyone else.
Such was Hitler’s anger at the paper’s actions that he called it the Munich Pest and, once he rose to power in 1933, sent storm troopers to destroy the editorial office and printing presses and throw the staff into prison.
“We've always wanted to do a movie about the ramp up to 1933: what happened in the early years, how did Hitler get to where he ended up and how did that work? That's really about this time," said Constantin’s Martin Moszkowicz in a statement picked up by Variety.
This isn’t the first historical piece Schwentke has considered – he’s still interested in real-life sub drama Shadow Divers. But the real world will have to wait until next year at the earliest, as he’s busy getting ready to make** R.I.P.D.**, featuring Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges as dead cops battling evil for Universal…