Right here’s a mission we’ve no reservations about. A24 has arrange “Tony,” a biopic concerning the lifetime of celeb chef and documentarian Anthony Bourdain, that may star Dominic Sessa, greatest often called the breakout star of “The Holdovers” from Alexander Payne, in addition to Antonio Banderas, a person with data of the mission advised IndieWire.
Matt Johnson, who directed “Blackberry,” will direct the movie based mostly on a screenplay by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe. Manufacturing will kick off on “Tony” subsequent month.
The logline is beneath wraps, however sources say the movie takes place through the summer season of 1976, when a younger Anthony Bourdain has a life-changing summer season in Provincetown. No phrase on whom Banderas is portraying within the movie.
Trevor White and Tim White on behalf of their Star Thrower Leisure are producing “Tony.” The duo is thought for “The Put up” and “King Richard,” they usually beforehand partnered with A24 on “Eternity” starring Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph, and Callum Turner. Additionally producing are Johnson and Matthew Miller by means of their Zapruder Movies banner.
Chris Stinson, Amy Greene, Lou Howe, Todd Bartels, and Emily Rose will government produce the mission. Kimberly Witherspoon, who represents Bourdain’s Property, may also government produce.
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 within 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 every part 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. Enjoyable.,” and in “Now You See Me 3.”
Johnson additionally simply directed “Nirvanna: The Band The Present The Film” that premiered at SXSW and is being launched by Neon.
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.