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Anthony Bourdain‘s graphic novels are about to be served up on the small screen.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Adult Swim has ordered a season of Get Jiro! as a half-hour animated series, based on the late chef and Joel Rose’s graphic novels.
Per the DC Comics website, the comics take place “in a not-too-distant future of food-obsessed L.A., where master chefs rule the town like crime lords and people literally kill for a seat at the best restaurant.”
“Jiro, a renegade and ruthless sushi chef arrives in town with strong ideas of his own,” the synopsis continues. “It’s a bloody culinary war of epic proportions, and in the end, no chef may be left alive!”
Helmed by creators Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, the series will follow Jiro in this version of Los Angeles, where restaurant goers would go so far as to kill for a table at the nicest eateries, per Variety. According to the outlet, Warner Bros. Animation’s EVP of Alternative Programming Peter Girardi said that Bourdain “was a big comic fan, a big anime fan,” and that when he “got to Warner Brothers Animation, Get Jiro was one of the first things that [he] optioned from DC.”
“I started to develop it with Tony when Tony was still alive,” he shared, in part. “Um, and it became a labor of love for me, truly.”
While the news was broken exclusively by THR early on Friday, the announcement was made later at the Annecy Animation Festival’s Warner Bros. Discovery Adult Animation Showcase, where another series based on graphic novels, titled Super Mutant Magic Academy, was revealed. Meanwhile, as noted by THR and Variety, My Adventures with Superman was renewed for a third season.
In November 2018, five months after Bourdain’s tragic passing from suicide, CNN aired the last episode of his series Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. A documentary titled Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2021, which was shortly followed by a theatrical release and an eventual 2022 streaming release.
