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Lucky Luciano Movie in the Works.

Before Tony Soprano or Don Corleone or Tony Montana there was Lucky Luciano the real-life patriarch of modern organized crime.

Luciano was the Sicilian immigrant who rose to power in the Mafia in the U.S. in the 1920s and transformed it into a flourishing enterprise based on legitimate economic models. He ordered gangland killings, consolidated warring crime factions and began laundering profits from narcotics and prostitution through lawful businesses.

Criminals paid attention. So did the cops. Even the White House deferred to Luciano during World War II, imploring him to marshal the Mafia to help the Allies crush the enemy a covert intervention that earned him a presidential pardon. Major studios struggled for decades to secure the rights to the mobster's life story but failed because Luciano's family was reluctant to bring his crime-filled saga to the screen.

Finally, a movie about Luciano is in the works, and the driving force behind the project is Joseph Isgro, a producer once branded a Mafia soldier by the FBI. Isgro was a producer on the 1992 film "Hoffa" while under indictment on racketeering charges.

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The life story of Lucky Luciano is finally coming to the big screen.

Producer Bob DeBrino who holds the movie option to "The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano," by the late Martin Gosch and former N.Y. Times reporter Richard Hammer is pitching studios a film about the Sicilian-born mob boss who helped the U.S. win World War II from his prison cell by ensuring labor peace on the docks. The crime kingpin, who was freed and exiled in 1946, collaborated with the authors on the condition that the book not be published until a decade after his 1962 death. New interest in Luciano was sparked by Joe Isgro, a former music promoter who in 2000 was sentenced to 50 months in jail for extortion and loan- sharking. Isgro surfaced in Hollywood claiming he had the rights to the Luciano story. "Rights to what?" Hammer sputtered. "There are no rights." Luciano has no surviving relatives. Isgro created some confusion around Tinseltown, says DeBrino, but he's pressing on. Being Italian is not a prerequisite for the lead role DeBrino's wish list includes George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp.

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Wauw, eindelijk een degelijke (?) film over mijn leven.

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[Cyan]

Niet zo'n grote naam...Bob Debrino, als ik zo zijn imdb page bekijk

 

[Gorill0r]

Lucky Luciano was een held. Lijkt me stoer om een film over zijn leven te zien.

 

[FLX]

Je bent blij he?

 

[deurklink]

The first and only true American Gangster.

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[LuckyLuciano]

Je bent blij he?

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Ik wacht af, wie weet valt het (alweer) keihard tegen.

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