Anthony Bourdain‘s life is getting the big screen treatment.
Dominic Sessa, who broke out this past year in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, is set to star as the beloved food world icon for a feature film from the New York-based studio A24 and King Richard outfit Star Thrower Entertainment.
Matt Johnson, who is behind the well-received Blackberry feature, is set to direct from a script by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.
A24 is in talks to produce with Tim White and Trevor White under Star Thrower. Johnson and Matthew Miller would also produce with Emily Rose set as an executive producer. A24 and Star Thrower recently wrapped Eternity, starring Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen.
Sessa is represented by CAA, Untitled and Hansen Jacobson; Johnson is represented by CAA and Akin Gump; Miller is represented by CAA and Akin Gump.
Bourdain came to prominence as the chronicler of the rock-and-roll 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 after that Parts Unknown on CNN, which he hosted until his death in 2018.
Kitchen Confidential was made into a TV series in 2005 starring Bradley Cooper as a stand-in for Bourdain. More recently, Bourdain’s life was the subject of the 2021 documentary Roadrunner.
