Robert Schwentke To Direct Hitler vs. Press Movie THE POISON KITCHEN
Flightplan & Red helmer to tell the story of the anti-Nazi newspaper Muenchener Post as Adolf Hitler attempted to shut it down in pre-war 30's Germany.
Variety reports today that German mini-major production company Constantin Films has set away Stuttgart born Hollywood director Robert Schwenkte (Red, Flightplan) to direct The Poison Kitchen, an English language Second World War thriller that it's hoped will film next year. The movie is based on the brave attempts of the journalists and editors at the Muenchener Post newspaper who had a decade long campaign to criticise Adolf Hitler and his politics 'exposing their crimes, internal intrigues, and scandals' during the early days of the Nazi party's rise to prominence in Germany, proving a real thorn in the side of the future Fuhrer. Of course it would all be in vein as Hitler managed to get into power and the whole newspaper, which Hitler nicknamed the "Munich Pest' was quickly burnt to the ground, the office building completely destroyed and the staff locked up. The newspaper would never print another issue after being shut down in 1933. So what we have here could be something like All The President's Men meets every Nazi war picture ever made - a combination we never thought we'd see but instantly you can see the story potential in this one.