David Mamet to direct the drama of ‘2 Days / 1963’ about the role of Sam Giancana in the assassination of JFK, from the screenplay of the nephew of the mafia gangster Nicholas Celozzi

ExclusiveDirected by David Mamet 2 days / 1963Written by Nicolas Celloz, the drama tells the story of how his great-uncle, Chicago mobster Sam Giancana, organized the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in retaliation for an attempt to crack down on organized crime after a mob brought down the president John F. Kennedy JFK at his home. . Mamet, a two-time Oscar-nominated writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, will rewrite Celloz’s screenplay. The film will be produced by Celozzi through Monaco Films, with Vice President Michael Sportell also producing. Bonnie Jaankana will be the daughter of a deceased mobster, consultant and executive producer.

The drama will focus on the unprecedented events that took place 48 hours before the assassination of the 35th President of the United States in November 1963. Some of Selozi’s information comes from his late uncle Pepe, Giancana’s brother, which Selozi said , he told him about the crowd. complicity in murder. The story reveals a mafia version of the assassination: JFK’s retaliation for abusing Jankana after helping elect Kennedy and for attempting to investigate Robert Kennedy and dismantle organized crime.

Production will begin in the fourth quarter of 2022 in Los Angeles and Dallas. The distribution and output of the function are under discussion. The deal was brokered by Atlas Artists’ John Burnham, Weintraub Tobin’s Stan Coleman, and attorney Alan Abrams.

Crowd theory was part of what director Oliver Stone introduced into the film. jfk, centered on the findings of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) that contradicted the Warren Commission’s armed conclusion. When the Violoncelli script was sent to Mamet, it sparked skepticism from the same writer-director he felt ten years ago when he was about to shoot a film about the inconsistencies of Zapruder’s film, the only known visual chronicle of Kennedy’s last moments. .

“I wrote a very good script based on a Zapruder movie about 10 years ago. Cate Blanchett was about to do it and we were all ready to start shooting it, and then the money boy came out, “Mamet told Deadline, who acknowledges the difficulty. He finally announced what happened on that tragic day.” There is. was a wonderful physicist named Richard Finman who said there are no great breakthroughs in science when someone says, ‘I found Eureka,’ but when a scientist says, ‘Hey, this is ridiculous.’ Getting into Zapruder’s film was inspired by the idea that some shots are missing, and it is. In fact, one of the frames has been changed. Why the film has changed is ridiculous. When you look at the secret killing panel, his secret discoveries were made and should have been published last year. But they said we were going to arrest some of them. I told myself it was ridiculous. I don’t know what it means, but it means something.

“Nick wrote and sent this script, and this is a pointless scenario,” Mamet said. “Really internal things, like Francis Coppola with Mario Puzo Godfather. It’s a wonderful American film, but it has very little to do with the book. What is that Godfather For real? Frances Coppola and Mario Puzo sat around the kitchen table and told stories they had heard about their grandparents. That’s why we love this movie, the smell of being in it presents itself as gossip about family and cultural myths. This is what Nick heard from the insiders around the kitchen table. Incredibly delicious. This made me say that I would love to make this movie and here we are.

Selozi said she heard a lot of stories at the dinner table, which was enough to make sure her family was at the center of the event and that it was revenge.

“I feel really good about all of this,” Chelozi said. “My uncle Joe, we called him Pepe, was with him [Giancana] Those two days when those other kids were in Dallas. Normally my uncle used them, so he asked Pepe to move it. The story I had, I got it from him. The story of the underworld that he launched. Pepe was a fly on the wall in the basement at Akard’s house. “When I gave Bonnie Jaankana the script to read, she told me she was 85% right.”

Selozi said the mafia and the government had been lying in bad business for years and that the JFK administration had ignored Jankana and his associates who had made money.

“Organized crime was doing things for the government before they learned to do the work for themselves,” Cheloci said. “They were hired as hit men to work for the government. My uncle said government couldn’t exist without organized crime, so they worked closely together. As for my uncle, who is running in three states for Kennedy’s election, this is a preliminary conclusion. But this is more than a betrayal of his position. The Kennedy administration tried to dismantle organized crime. The brother began to walk behind them, each of them. As for Tony Akardo, he was crawling on his lawn. It lasted a while and that was what they were trying to get rid of, trying to change their minds. They spoke to Kennedy’s father Joe, who repeatedly told the children to back off. It’s a combination of betrayal, but more of an investigation, a phone call when a brother was trying to dismantle an organized crime. “

Selozi said he was looking for Mamet because his distinctive voice when writing dialogues with a crowd of tough guys matched what he heard around him. Mamet’s attacks include this genre. Untouchable, things change, Lansky, robbery Y hofa.

Mamet said it’s always a challenge to play the drama “Where Are You Going on the Grid,” but she believes an insider’s influence creates opportunity.

“There are several central characters, including Sam Jaankana and Jack Ruby, and what I’m looking for as a director, and if I confuse him as a screenwriter, it’s not what we know, but what we don’t know. . What’s inside? Instead of being pieces of cardboard, Ruby kills Oswald and Jankana Stup Kennedy’s girlfriend, that’s how I find lovely items in transition. scenes. The wonderful challenge of cinema came to me when an American writer wrote his memoir, which was a bestseller. Mark Twain was his editor and said, “Grant writes so well you wonder who will win the civil war.” “

Celozzi’s credits include document Momo: The story of Sam Giancana.