Robert de Niro will be an Italian mafia boss in “Wise Guys” set in the 20th century

With a double starring role, the American actor Robert de Nirowill be the one who will play an Italian-American mafia boss in the next film that the Warner Bros. studio is already preparing, although at the moment there is not enough information about it, but the subject has been confirmed.

Robert de Niro will have a dual role, as well as will star in the next Warner Bros., it also becomes the enemy within. The winner of two Oscars for “The Godfather: Part II” and “Vito Corleone” is back on the action scene with this film project.

The title of this film project is’Wise guys’, the newspaper revealed The Hollywood reporter. The plot the mafia bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello will followwho in the mid-twentieth century led two families in conflict.

De Niro will play both characters, according to the publication made by the medium. In 1957 Genovese attempted to assassinate Costello, rendering him incapacitated and forcing him to withdraw from the mafia.

Barry Levinson and Robert de Niro are working together again

Barry Levinsonresponsible for titles such as “Rain Man” and “Wag the Dog”, he will be in charge of directing the film, which will reunite the director with De Niro after working together on “Sleepers”, “Wag the Dog” and the HBO series “The lie wizard “and” What Just Happened “.

The film will mark the return of De Niro, 78, to the genre that made him a star, as his most celebrated works include “Goodfellas”, “Casino” and “The Godfather Part II”, films with the which won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1974.

Most recently, he starred in “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s latest film, in which he reprized the role of a criminal leader in 1950s New York.

In the future, he will reunite with the director of “Taxi Driver” to shoot “Killer of the Flower Moon”, a ‘western’ set in the state of Oklahoma in the 1920s that will be part of the Apple TV + catalog. (With information from EFE).