Seemingly always en vogue, gangsters have been especially so in recent years. The grand seigneur of American cinema, Martin Scorsese, finally won his long-deserved first Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for “The Departed” in 2007. Michael Mann’s 2009 effort “Public Enemies” was a big-budget production with high-dollar stars. The HBO drama “The Sopranos” [...]
Hollywood has long had a fascination with notorious gangster, Al Capone. And, at least over at Warner Bros., that fascination is alive and well. The studio has decided to pick up a screenplay, “Cicero,” on the origins of the infamous public enemy by writer Walon Green (“The Wild Bunch,” “Robocop 2″). “Cicero” focuses on Capone’s [...]
Allow me to begin with a question. Imagine you’ve been commissioned to write a comedy involving French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. What’s the first thing that comes to mind? Short jokes, right? This is the problem. You’d think famed luminaries of world history like General Custer, Teddy Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Ivan the Terrible, and Napoleon would [...]
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