{"id":64684,"date":"2013-01-30T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T10:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2013\/01\/30\/omar-sy-bradley-cooper-in-talks-derek-cianfrance-chef\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T09:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T09:42:49","slug":"omar-sy-bradley-cooper-in-talks-derek-cianfrance-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/omar-sy-bradley-cooper-in-talks-derek-cianfrance-chef\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Sy, Bradley Cooper in talks to do Derek Cianfrance’s ‘Chef’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Omar Sy, Bradley Cooper in talks to do Derek Cianfrance’s ‘Chef’<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

January 30, 2013<\/p>\n

Source: Variety<\/a><\/p>\n

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Omar Sy<\/strong>, the breakthrough star of “The Intouchables<\/strong>,” and Bradley Cooper<\/strong>, whose perf in “Silver Linings Playbook<\/strong>” has earned him an Oscar nom, are in discussions to topline in The Weinstein Company-backed culinary comedy “Chef” <\/strong>(working title). Pic would be Sy’s first role in an English-language film.<\/p>\n

Produced by IM Global, the project — currently in development — was unveiled at the American Film Market by TWC, which has international distribution rights.<\/p>\n

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Derek Cianfrance<\/strong>, who directed Cooper in “The Place Beyond the Pines<\/strong>,” is set to helm, and “Eastern Promises” scribe Steven Knight<\/strong> will pen the screenplay.<\/p>\n

Cooper would star as a disgraced chef who, after losing his Michelin-rated restaurant in Paris, decides to bring his crew back together in an attempt to create the best restaurant ever in London.<\/p>\n

The role would be a natural fit for Cooper, who starred as a chef making a career comeback in Fox’s sitcom “Kitchen Confidential.”<\/p>\n

While in France to promote “Silver Linings Playbook,” Cooper, who is highly popular in Gaul, mentioned the project and the possibility of co-starring with Sy to local radio station RTL.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been talking about this project. I want to do it. It’s a beautiful story. And I love cooking,” Cooper told RTL in fluent French.<\/p>\n

Copper nevertheless suggested that if he were to star in the film it wouldn’t lense in the coming months. “I’m going to make another film in March and after that I think I’m going to take a break and stay in Paris for Roland Garros (the tennis tournament set in late May).”<\/p>\n

Sy, who moved to Los Angeles last year, has recently been attached to take the lead role in “Chocolat,” a French-language biopic of Rafael Padilla, a former slave born in Cuba who became the first black artist in France during the Belle Epoque era. It will lense in spring 2014.<\/p>\n

The Golden Globe-nommed “The Intouchables,” which TWC released in the U.S., was a wordwide B.O. phenom.<\/p>\n

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