Oliver Platt is taking on the deadly world of culinary arts in a new movie from Warner Brothers. He's been cast in their remake of the 1978 George Segal/Jaqueline Bisset comedy caper Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?. For the redo they're tossing out Europe and just shortening it to Who is killing the Great Chefs?
According to Variety, in the new version, Platt will play a food critic (played by Robert Morley in the original) who comes to Las Vegas to check out the culinary scene. For you and me that means a trip to the legendary Vegas buffet, for a food critic I imagine something more out of the common man's price range. He shows up to dine with the elite, but soon finds himself the lead suspect in a murder plot that leaves a chef killed in the same way his signature dish is prepared.
"Family Guy" and "Futurama" writer David A. Goodman has been hired to script it, and while I'd love to see a film filled with weird family guy asides (the kind of comedy Platt would be weirdly perfect for), somehow I don't think that's what we're going to get here. Whatever Goodman ends up writing, at least he knows funny. Sure, he's also the creator of "Team Knight Rider", but he redeemed himself by writing that genius episode of "Futurama" where Fry goes on a quest to find Leonard Nimoy's head after learning that future Earth has banned Star Trek right off the planet.
