Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Barry Levinson Replaces Nick Cassavetes as Director on 'Gotti' Biopic

Initially, we heard Nick Cassavetes was going to be at the helm of a biopic about reformed criminal John Gotti Jr. and his mobster father, the late head of the Gambino crime family. Then January brought news of John Travolta playing the senior Gotti followed by the casting of Joe Pesci and Lindsay Lohan last month. But just recently, director Nick Cassavetes was forced to exit the film, which has been titled Gotti: Three Generations, due to scheduling issues with his indie drama Yellow. Now Variety reports director Barry Levinson (You Don't Know Jack, Rain Man) will replace Cassavetes as the director of this biopic.

As the title suggests, the story follows three generations of the Gotti family with an emphasis on the relationship between Gotti Sr. and his son, who chooses to turn his back on the mob code he grew up around. Pesci is playing Gotti deputy ...

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