‘the menu’: read the screenplay for seth reiss and will tracy’s delicious horror comedy

EDITORS NOTE: _Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races._ To eat or not to eat? That is the

question posed to a group of affluent diners in the twisted culinary satire __. The Searchlight Pictures film directed by Mark Mylod follows an esteemed, award-winning chef named Julian

Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) during the celebratory last night at his five-star island restaurant Hawthorne. Enticed by the exclusivity of the mysterious island eatery are several high-profile

guests including a washed-up movie star, three annoying tech bros, an elderly couple, a famed food critic, an over-enthused foodie (Nicholas Hoult) and his morose girlfriend (Anya

Taylor-Joy). They await a personalized multi-course menu that, to their horror, grows increasingly more exploitative and violent than the last. The sharp script penned by Seth Reiss and Will

Tracy provides biting commentary about how obscene wealth can corrupt and blind people to reality. In a darkly funny scene between Slowik and a highly educated diner, the chef simply admits

to wanting to kill her because she was able to graduate from Brown without accruing student loans. WATCH ON DEADLINE “One of the things I’m most proud of in _The Menu_ is you can view it

through a whole lot of different lenses,” Mylod told Deadline. “It’s a really fun ride, but there is that social bite to it, and I hope it’s not quite as straightforward as ‘eat the rich.’

At least for me, the most interesting items are about the individual characters, and how their whole value system is being perverted, eaten and twisted.” The film premiered at the Toronto

Film Festival and has since garnered acting nominations for both Fiennes and Taylor-Joy at the Golden Globes. It also stars Hong Chau, John Leguizamo and Judith Light. Feast your eyes on the

screenplay by clicking below.