Antonio Banderas is set to co-star opposite Dominic Sessa in Tony, the Anthony Bourdain movie from A24, Star Thrower and Zapruder Films. Matt Johnson is directing from a script by Todd Bartels and Lou Howe.
The logline is under wraps, but sources say the film takes place during the summer of 1976, when a young Anthony Bourdain has a life-changing summer in Provincetown. It is unknown who Banderas will play.
A24 will produce with Tim and Trevor White under their Star Thrower banner, along with Johnson and Matthew Miller through their Zapruder Films. Chris Stinson, Amy Greene, Howe, Bartels and Emily Rose will executive produce. Kimberly Witherspoon, who represents Bourdain’s estate, will also executive produce.
Banderas and A24 have strong ties after the Oscar-nominated actor recently starred opposite Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in Babygirl. He was also recently seen in Paddington in Peru.
A24 and Star Thrower have also partnered on the film Eternity directed by David Freyne, written by Pat Cunnane and starring Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, Callum Turner and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.
Banderas is repped by Emanuel Nunez at NuCo Media Group and George Hayum at Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman. Star Thrower is represented by CAA and attorney David Boyle. Johnson is represented by CAA and Chris Spicer at Akin Gump. Sessa is represented by CAA, Untitled, and Steve Warren at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Bartels and Howe are repped by CAA, Mosaic, and Granderson Des Rochers
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