The Holdovers actor Dominic Sessa is set to star as Anthony Bourdain in a biopic of the late celebrity chef and travel documentarian.
The film, Tony, will be helmed by Blackberry director and co-writer Matt Johnson, according to Variety.
A24 is in talks to produce the film while the script will be written by Lou Howe and Todd Bartels. No further details of the biopic have yet been revealed.
Bourdain came to prominence as the chronicler of the New York restaurant scene with his memoir Kitchen Confidential. He then became the face of world travel and food with his series No Reservations, which ran for eight seasons on the Travel Channel, and Parts Unknown on CNN, which he hosted until his death in 2018.
It isn’t the first film project based on his life, the documentary Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain premiered at Tribeca in 2021 but it was heavily criticised after it was confirmed that AI was used in three instances to replicate Bourdain’s voice in order to read his own quotes aloud.
Director Morgan Neville argued that the creative decision had been cleared by those closest to Bourdain. “I checked, you know, with his widow and his literary executor, just to make sure people were cool with that. And they were like, Tony would have been cool with that,” he added.
Meanwhile, Sessa, who played Angus Tully in The Holdovers, is next set to appear in Now You See Me 3 alongside fellow franchise newcomers Ariana Greenblatt and Justice Smith.
Elsewhere, Patton Oswalt recently revealed that he and Bourdain bonded over the famous chef’s love of the Disney film Ratatouille.
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