Emily Blunt AND Dwayne Johnson they are keeping their creative partnership alive after The Smashing machineAnd their next collaboration promises to be something quite great.
The couple is destined for team with the legendary director Martin Scorsese For a crowd of crowd that Blunt describes as “The Last Great American Mob Story”.
To the premiere of A24 The Smashing machine At the beginning of this week, Blunt made fun of what is after her and Johnson. “
We are developing it now. It’s a truly surprising story, “he told Deadline.” It is the last great story of the American crowd and I can’t believe it has not yet been told.
“It is a terribly exciting role for [Johnson] To dig in. So, it was written, we are working on it. And this is the wonderful part, it is building it. “
According to reports, Scorsese himself described the film as a Hawaiian set Goodfellas. Written by Nick BiltonThe story will focus on a Hawaiian crime boss of real life, Wilford “Nappy” Pulawa, who led the company in the 70s.
The Kingdom of Pulawa has been defined by violence, by power struggles and a brutal fight against rivals including Triads and even the US military. His organization controlled rackets from gambling and corruption of work to human and drug trafficking.
In the end, Pulawa faced accusations for several murders, but in the end he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for tax evasion in 1973, subsequently released in 1984. In 1975, he was permanently banned by the Nevada casinos.
His bloody ascent and fall is the type of material on which Scorsese has built his career and seeing Johnson entering a character compared to that of Robert De Niro in Goodfellas makes this a project particularly intriguing.
The film brings together a central production team that includes Scorsese, Johnson, Blunt, Leonardo DiCaprioBilton, Dany Garcia, Lisa Frecteteand lbi entertainment’s Rick Yorn AND Chris Donnelly.
An epic of the Hawaiian crowd conducted by Scorsese, with Johnson and Blunt, and DiCaprio sounds like an incredibly ambitious gangster film.
By Joey Gour
Source: Geek Tyrant
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