BURNT Trailer: Bradley Cooper is a Rock Star Chef

When Jon Favreau's Chef was in development, a rival chef-centered film popped up at another studio. That project, once called Adam Jones, is now called Burnt, and it stars Bradley Cooper as an intense chef looking for (metaphorical) immortality through his cooking. Cooper previously played a chef on FOX's Kitchen Confidential that was inspired by real chef Anthony Bourdain, so this will be a return to familiar territory for him. It boasts a pretty solid cast — including Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman, Omar Sy, Alicia Vikander, Daniel Bruhl, and Sienna Miller — but just as often as you'll see a famous face in this trailer (via Yahoo), you'll see Cooper flipping a table or smashing dishes in the kitchen. It looks extremely over the top, and the self-serious way it treats cooking as the most important thing a person can do borders on parody, but I can't deny that I'm intrigued.

John Wells (The Company Men, August: Osage County) directs, and Burnt arrives in theaters on October 23rd.