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The Brief, Extraordinary Life of Cody Spafford

In this Seattle Met article (published March 10, 2015), Allecia Vermillion tells the story of Cody Spafford, who found both solace and redemption in the kitchen of Seattle's most celebrated restaurant. But what turned a promising chef into a bank robber?

Imagine Taylor Kitsch as the young man who battled heroin addiction for years before getting himself clean and rising up the ranks of the Northwest Coast's elite chefs... only to relapse, rob a bank, and invite one of Seattle's largest manhunts in its history.

In the hands of a filmmaker like Gus Van Sant or Jean-Marc Vallee, this could transcend the indie-festival circuit and break out.

If this article made it into your weekend read pile, would you give it the greenlight?