Right here’s a undertaking we’ve no reservations about. A24 is rumored to be in talks to amass the rights to “Tony,” a biopic in regards to the lifetime of celeb chef and documentarian Anthony Bourdain, a number of sources have confirmed to IndieWire.
Dominic Sessa, the breakout star of final 12 months’s “The Holdovers” from Alexander Payne, can also be in talks to star as Bourdain in the movie. Matt Johnson, who directed “Blackberry,” is in talks to direct the movie primarily based on a screenplay by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.
Sources say that no offers are in place simply but. A24 had no remark.
Plot particulars are being saved beneath wraps, and it’s unclear if the movie relies on any specific second of his life or any particular supply materials.
Trevor White and Tim White on behalf of their Star Thrower Leisure are producing “Tony.” The duo is thought for “The Post” and “King Richard,” they usually partnered with A24 on the upcoming “Eternity” starring Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller. Emily Rose is government producing the undertaking.
Bourdain, after cooking in Manhattan as an government chef all through the ’80s, turned an in a single day celeb due to his bestseller “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.” Bourdain spilled secrets and techniques of life contained in the kitchen, and he had a down-to-Earth, no nonsense honesty about meals. All through the 2000s and 2010s, he turned iconic as a compelling wordsmith in describing his enthusiasm for easy pleasures, together with the whole lot from world class sushi to scrambled eggs to In-n-Out. Bourdain tragically died of suicide in 2018, and a documentary was made on his life by Morgan Neville, “Roadrunner” from 2021.
Sessa made his performing debut in “The Holdovers,” holding his personal with Paul Giamatti and flashing his character’s mind, sarcasm, and pathos. Up subsequent he’ll seem in a movie known as “Tow” alongside Rose Byrne, in Michael Showalter’s vacation comedy “Oh. What. Fun.,” and in “Now You See Me 3.”
Johnson is represented by CAA and Chris Spicer at Akin Gump; Sessa is represented by CAA, Untitled, and Steve Warren at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Miller is represented by CAA and Chris Spicer at Akin Gump.
Deadline first reported the information.
