US EditionJohn Woo & Nicolas Cage Teaming Up Thirty Years After ‘Face/Off’ For New York Crime Boss Pic ‘Gambino’ – AFM
John Woo directs Nicolas Cage in Gambino, portraying the Sicilian mob boss's rise and impact on New York's underworld, with sales launching at the American Film Market.
- John Woo and Nicolas Cage reunite almost three decades after Face/Off, with WME Independent launching the Gambino sales package at the American Film Market.
- A few years ago the Gambino project was first revealed and has been retooled with director Woo, star Cage, WME Independent, and producers Cassian Elwes and Edward Zeng, who last year launched a $100M fund supporting NextG Films' financing.
- John Woo will direct from a script by George Gallo and Nick Vallelonga, while Nicolas Cage will star and produce with Gallo, Vallelonga, Robert Daly Jr., and David Lipper.
- NextG Films' backers say they aim to deliver an epic cinematic experience to bring audiences back to theaters, while Pulitzer-winning journalist Jimmy Breslin pursues Carlo Gambino's death to uncover the man beneath the legend.
- An odd echo: John Travolta once portrayed John Gotti, Gambino-era boss, while Carlo Gambino led the Gambino crime family for over fifty years until 1976.
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New York, 13 Nov (EFE).- Actor Nicolas Cage will return to work with the director of the successful film ‘Face/Off’ (1997), which he starred alongside John Travolta, to get into the skin of Carlo Gambino, the head of one of the families of the New York mafia. Legendary Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo, considered one of the masters of action film and who worked with Cage almost three decades ago, will lead ‘Gambino’, an epic of crimes that narrates …
Nicolas Cage to reunite with John Woo for crime epic 'Gambino' as Carlo Gambino
Nicolas Cage is set to reunite with legendary action director John Woo for the upcoming crime epic ‘Gambino,’ marking nearly three decades since the pair last collaborated on the cult classic ‘Face/Off.’ The film, directed by Woo (The Killer, Silent Night), features a script penned by Bad Boys writer George Gallo and Oscar-winning Green Book writer-producer Nick Vallelonga. The story centres on Cage’s portrayal of Carlo Gambino, a butcher’s son …
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