Big-screen documentary on the late Anthony Bourdain in the works
ANTHONY Bourdain will be given the big- screen treatment in a documentary that’s already in preproduction at CNN.
According to Vanity Fair, the documentary fi lm will delve deeper into Bourdain’s life and work, and will hit screens as early as 2019.
The project is a collaboration with Zero Point Zero which produced Bourdain’s CNN series “Parts Unknown,” the hit travelogue which fi rst debuted on CNN in 2013.
Bourdain died in June by suicide.
The fi lm is billed as “the defi nitive Bourdain feature documentary,” and will fi rst debut on the festival circuit before getting a theatrical release and eventually airing on CNN.
“As well as we knew Tony... there was still a hunger to know more about him, and to honour his work and celebrate him. The documentary format became one of the more obvious ways to go,” CNN’s executive for talent and content Amy Entelis told Vanity Fair.
CNN previously announced that the 12th and fi nal season of “Parts Unknown” will air this autumn.
An authorised biography of the TV host, writer and raconteur is also in the works. “The Oral Biography” will feature a compilation of stories shared by Bourdain’s closest friends and edited by his long-time collaborator Laurie Woolever. The book is set for a fall 2019 release.