Robert De Niro and his director will re-team “Wag the Dog”Barry Levinson to star in a new crime drama, “Wise Guys” that is set at Warner Bros. that would have De Niro playing not one but two of the 20th Century’s biggest crime bosses, an individual with knowledge of the project told .
Nicholas Pileggi was the one who wrote the original crime script. It would tell the story of Vito Genovese (the head of two Italian-American mafia family families) and Frank Costello (the other). Genovese attempted to assassinate Costello in 1957. De Niro was slated to portray both Genovese, and Costello in the movie.
Pileggi is the author a book called “Wiseguys” from 1985 that served as the basis for Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas”Since 1990. Irwin Winkler“Rocky,” “Goodfellas”Producing is a ).
De Niro will next be seen in David O. Russell’s “Amsterdam” and in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”Some of his latest credits include “The Irishman” “Joker,”Also available for Warner Bros.
Levinson was most recently director “The Survivor”With Ben Foster, who is up for an Emmy nomination this year.
CAA represents De Niro. WME represents Levinson.
THRFirst reported the news.
