Adult Swim, apparently content to continue its efforts to dominate the conversation coming out of this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, has now announced another big-name project soon to come to its televisual shores: Get Jiro!, which carries a hell of a pedigree, being based on a graphic novel co-penned by the late Anthony Bourdain.
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Bourdain published the first book in the series—which he co-wrote with Joel Rose, with art by Langdon Foss—in 2012, landing it on the New York Times’ bestsellers list. The book imagines a future where cutthroat gangs of chefs rule Los Angeles, and a mysterious, revenge-minded sushi chef comes to town, bringing violent chaos with him. (And yes, this is basically, and consciously, the plot of Yojimbo, but with a sushi chef in the central role.) The book got good reviews, and while it did fall a bit out of conceptual step with some of Bourdain’s more anthropological efforts, it’s not hard to imagine him pitching the bit where Jiro angrily decapitates a boorish patron who drowns his carefully prepared sushi in wasabi and soy sauce.
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Would the book have been as successful—or gotten this TV series adaptation—without Bourdain’s name attached? We’d imagine not, but it’s still a pretty fun premise, with Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka serving as co-showrunners on the new series. (And it’s still less ghoulish than, say, using AI to recreate the man’s actual voice, as the producers of semi-recent documentary Roadrunner