The Gotham Group, producer of the Maze Runner movie trilogy, is headed to the kitchen with its latest project. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein's management-production company has optioned John Birdsall’s The Man Who Ate Too Much, a biography about James Beard, the American food world legend.
And Gotham has tapped David Gilbert and Sean Greer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel Less, to adapt the book about the pioneering chef and food writer.
Birdsall's biography of Beard, who died in 1985, recounts how America's first foodie raised eyebrows by retooling French cuisine to create the gourmet hamburger as well as having lived as a closeted gay man for most of his life until 1981.
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