Cheryl Guerriero, who penned last year’s well-received Justin Timberlake-led film “Palmer,” has adapted the life story of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders into a new feature film.
Titled “A Finger Lickin’ Good Story: The Life of Colonel Sanders,” the project is based on the novel “The Colonel’s Secret: Eleven Herbs and a Spicy Daughter” by Sanders’ real-life daughter Margaret Sanders.
The book follows the sometimes complicated relationship Margaret had with her father who was 65 years old when he set out to franchise his chicken and built Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) which became one of the world’s largest restaurant chains.
Before that time he was various things including a steam engine stoker, insurance salesman, and filling station operator. Sanders died in 1980, but KFC still uses his persona as its symbol
Guerriero will produce along with Eric Paquette and his Meridian Pictures label.
Source: Deadline
