The legendary 1976 Paris Tasting is set to be given the Hollywood treatment with stars such as Jude Law and Hugh Grant in the frame, reports Libby Banks in Decanter.com.
A Los Angeles film company has bought the rights to George Taber's book Judgment of Paris: California vs. France , which tells the story of "the tasting that changed the wine world."
Decanter 's Consultant Editor Steven Spurrier, organiser of the historic event and its rerun last month in London and California , has had top-level talks with moguls at Clear Pictures Entertainment in Studio City . Discussions are in the earliest stages, but the names of Grant and Law have been put forward as possible leads. "I insisted that an English actor should play me and they suggested Hugh Grant or Jude Law," Spurrier said.
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