Wiseguy is Henry Hill's story, in fascinating, brutal detail, the never-before-revealed day-to-day life of a working mobster-his violence, his wild spending sprees, his wife, his mistress, his code of honor.Henry Hill knows where a lot of the bodies are buried, and he turned Federal witness to save his own life. To be a wiseguy was to own the world." -Henry HillWiseguy is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. Discovery and its new executive regime – which has gone on a cancellation spree with projects by younger creators, many of colour and now zeroing on a tried and tested mob tale."At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster. Such a throwback idea featuring a cast and creative core whose collective age is approximately one thousand years, is a big flag plant for Warner Bros.
Here, Pileggi wrote the script based on another true crime tale. The mob movie connections, meanwhile, continue with Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote the book Wiseguy from which Martin Scorsese made Goodfellas. In 1957, Genovese attempted to assassinate Costello but failed, although he was wounded and decided to retire, as much as one can retire from the Mafia.Īnd according to The Hollywood Reporter, De Niro will play both main men, Wise Guys focuses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, two Italian-American crime bosses that ran their respective families in the middle of the 20th century. The new movie, which marks the latest collaboration between De Niro and director Barry Levinson, will be based on a true story. Robert De Niro has famously played mobsters on screen before, and it appears he's ready to dive back in to the genre for Wise Guys.
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