Fox Searchlight has a delicious new movie on its hands, according to Variety. The studio is set to produce a film titled Flamin’ Hot—which would seem at first blush to be another bald, capitalistic grab, like The Emoji Movie, or The Angry Birds Movie, or the forever-gestating Fruit Ninja movie (which, yes, is a thing). But instead, this film aims to be an inspiring story about the man behind the flames: Richard Montañez, a former janitor at Frito-Lay who came up with a spicy idea that changed the snack game forever.

Montañez was born in Mexico and raised in California. Once there, he struggled to learn English, dropping out of high school and landing a job as a janitor at Frito-Lay’s Rancho Cucamonga plant in 1976, he said in a 2012 interview. It was then that he got the idea to give Cheetos a kick of flavor inspired by elote, a classic Mexican grilled-corn dish that is dressed in chile. He tested out the product in his family’s kitchen, let friends and co-workers try it, and was later able to get in touch with the president of the company.

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From there, Montañez was given two weeks to prepare a presentation, which he did by rushing to the library to look up books on marketing strategies and creating a mock design for the bag. It was a billion-dollar idea that catapulted Montañez up the corporate ladder; he’s now an executive at PepsiCo, and was nicknamed the “godfather of Hispanic branding.”

Flamin’ Hot already sounds like a prestige-y cross between Joy, David O. Russell’s drama about Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop, and The Pursuit of Happyness, the Will Smith vehicle about struggling entrepreneur Chris Gardner—a loftier mix than a film that steals its name from a Frito-Lay bag would suggest. The film will be produced by DeVon Franklin (Miracles from Heaven) under his Franklin Entertainment banner, and the script will be written by Lewis Colick (Ladder 49). We eagerly await the spiritual sequel about whoever invented Mountain Dew Baja Blast.