Why Anthony Bourdain’s Editor Wanted ‘Tony’ to Be Darker

There are two types of biopics: those that unconventionally show, and those that exhaustively tell. Thank goodness that Tony, the highly anticipated A24 biopic about the late Anthony Bourdain, takes the former route. “When we are writing a biopic,” screenwriter Todd Bartels told me, “[co-writer Lou Howe and I] are allergic to cradle-to-grave narratives. We […]