Robert De Niro will again be directed by Barry Levinson, as in “Lies That Kill”. AFP photo
Robert De Niro will share the screen with Robert De Niro himself Wise guys, a new film about the Italian-American mafia. The consecrated actor will have a double role: he will be the protagonist and his enemy in the film that will be recorded by the Warner Bros studio, reports the specialized site The Hollywood reporter.
Director Barry Levinson, director of titles such as Rain Man (1988) and street children (1996), he will be in charge of directing this story that he hopes to see in theaters and which tells of the confrontation between the mafia bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello.
De Niro will double up to play two contrasting Mafia bosses. Clarin archive photo
De Niro will play two of the leaders of the families who handled organized crime in New York in the mid-20th century. In 1957 Genovese attempted to assassinate Costello, rendering him incapacitated and forcing him to withdraw from the mafia.
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Wise guys It will mark De Niro’s return to the genre that made him a Hollywood star and thanks to which he is considered one of the best actors in history. Many of his most celebrated roles were in gangster films such as Good guys (1990), casino (1995) and The Godfather II (1974), with which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a young Vito Corleone.
The film will reunite De Niro and Levinson, who has already directed it street children (nineteen ninety six), lies that kill (1997), bad guys (2008) and in the TV movie The magician of lies (2017).
In “Good Boys”, another gangster, alongside Joe Pesci and the recently deceased Ray Liotta.
Nicholas Pileggi, co-writer of Good guys (1990), also starring De Niro, is writing the screenplay for Wise guys. that epic of Martin Scorsese was based on Pileggi’s book, Wiseguy: Life in a mafia family (1985), but it has nothing to do with Levinson’s future film.
Irwin Winkler, the producer of Rocky, Good guys Y The Wolf of Wall Streetamong others, it will act as a producer of Wise guys.
A very active veteran
Luis Brandoni and Robert De Niro dressed up like their characters, filming “Nada” in Diagonal Norte. Photo RS Photo
The 78-year-old veteran actor is more active than ever. In early May he was in Buenos Aires for filming Whateverthe comedy-drama of Star + directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn and starring Luis Brandoni.
In the series, De Niro plays Vincent, an internationally renowned writer, an old friend of Manuel (Brandoni), a sophisticated food critic. His voice should be heard in the first 4 episodes and he only appears as a guest star in episode 5.
Robert De Niro, with the “rejuvenating” effect in “The Irishman”.
Before that, De Niro worked at The Irish, Martin Scorsese’s latest film, which used extensive digital technology to age it and co-stars Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. In that long movie that could be seen on Netflix and garnered multiple Oscar nominations, De Niro once again played a criminal leader in 1950s New York.
In the future, he will meet again with the director of Taxi driver for The killer of the flower moona “western” set in the state of Oklahoma in the 1920s, which will be part of the Apple TV + catalog and will be released in 2023.
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Source: Clarin
