Exclusive: Here’s why I still love movies, even though it has been so many years since I moved from the vaudeville beat at Variety to cover the talkies. Nobodies can become somebodies in the blink of an eye and it happens often enough to give anybody with talent a puncher’s chance. Warner Bros has just made a deal with Tom Shepherd to rewrite Cicero. Since this film has Tom Hardy attached to play Al Capone and is a priority studio project, this is a pretty big break for Shepherd. He has been making a living as a waiter, waiting for his writing career to take off. John Lesher is producing Cicero, and Adam Kassan is exec producing with Leonard Ackerman. It takes a bold new look at the life of an American icon, chronicling the rise of Capone from lowly pimp to the feared gangster called Scarface, who consolidated control over Chicago,...
- 4/3/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Warner Bros. is moving forward with the Al Capone origins story "Cicero," from a script by longtime film and TV writer Walon Green.According to Variety, John Lesher will produce with Adam Kassan executive producing through their company Le Grisbi Productions. Leonard Ackerman, a producer on Warner Bros.' 1959 film "Al Capone," which saw Rod Steiger play the title role, will also executive produce.The film will be reminiscent of the classic gangster films that Warner Bros. released in the 1930s including "Little Caesar," which starred Edward G. Robinson and "The Public Enemy," which starred James Cagney. "Cicero" will follow Capone's rise from the Brooklyn slums to the head of the criminal underworld in Chicago during Prohibition, when his gang ran casinos...
- 9/15/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Warner Bros is jumping at the opportunity to bring Al Capone's origins to the big screen. They picked up the screenplay by television and film writer Walon Green. The script entitled "Cicero" is said to focus on Capone's rise from the slums of Brooklyn to the head of the criminal underworld in Chicago during Prohibition, when his gang operated casinos and speakeasies throughout the city. In order to operate outside Chicago city limits, the gangster set up headquarters in suburban Cicero, Illinois, where he famously took over the city government in 1924.Locked in to produce the feature is John Lesher with Leonard Ackerman attached as executive producer. Ackerman previously produced the 1959 Warner Bros film "Al Capone". Word has ti that this production will be a reversion to the kind of gangster films studios like Warner Bros used to spit out back in the '30s.The films on the...
- 9/14/2010
- LRMonline.com
Warner Bros. Pictures has bought Walon Green's screenplay about Al Capone's origins titled Cicero , reports Variety . The script details "Capone's rise from the slums of Brooklyn to the head of the criminal underworld in Chicago during Prohibition, when his gang operated casinos and speakeasies throughout the city. In order to operate outside Chicago city limits, the gangster set up headquarters in suburban Cicero, Ill., where he famously took over the city government in 1924." John Lesher is set to produce with Adam Kassan executive producing through their company Le Grisbi Productions. Leonard Ackerman, a producer on Warner Bros.' 1959 film Al Capone , is attached to executive produce.
- 9/14/2010
- Comingsoon.net
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