{"id":47335,"date":"2022-08-16T20:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/robert-de-niro-to-star-in-gangster-drama-wise-guys-at-warner-bros\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T20:59:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:59:44","slug":"robert-de-niro-to-star-in-gangster-drama-wise-guys-at-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/robert-de-niro-to-star-in-gangster-drama-wise-guys-at-warner-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert De Niro to Star in Gangster Drama &#8216;Wise Guys&#8217; at Warner Bros."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Robert De Niro will be sharing the screen with Hollywood legend Robert De Niro in the upcoming gangster drama \u201cWise Guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The movie, set at Warner Bros.  and intended to play in theaters, will be directed by Barry Levinson, the veteran filmmaker who is best known for \u201cRain Man\u201d and \u201cWag the Dog.\u201d  It reunites De Niro and Levinson, who previously teamed on \u201cWag the Dog,\u201d \u201cSleeper,\u201d the HBO series \u201cThe Wizard of Lies\u201d and \u201cWhat Just Happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWise Guys\u201d follows Italian American crime bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, who ran their respective families during the 20th century.  In 1957, Genovese tried (and failed) to assassinate Costello, who was ultimately injured and attempted to retire from the mafia.  De Niro is expected to portray the two main characters.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Pileggi, the co-writer of Martin Scorsese&#8217;s crime epic \u201cGoodfellas,\u201d which starred De Niro, is penning the screenplay for \u201cWise Guys.\u201d  (\u201cGoodfellas\u201d is based on Pileggi&#8217;s 1985 book \u201cWiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family,\u201d though it&#8217;s unrelated to Levinson&#8217;s film.)<\/p>\n<p>For De Niro, \u201cWise Guys\u201d is a return to the genre that turned him into a star.  Along with \u201cGoodfellas,\u201d the actor made a name for himself in crime dramas like \u201cThe Godfather Part II,\u201d \u201cMean Streets\u201d and \u201cCasino.\u201d  His more recent credits include \u201cJoker\u201d and Scorsese&#8217;s \u201cThe Irishman,\u201d which used extensive digital technology to de-age De Niro and his co-stars Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.  He&#8217;s re-teaming with Scorsese on Apple&#8217;s \u201cKillers of the Flower Moon,\u201d a Western crime drama about the 1920 Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Irwin Winkler, a producer on \u201cRocky\u201d and \u201cGoodfellas,\u201d will serve as a producer on \u201cWise Guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert De Niro will be sharing the screen with Hollywood legend Robert De Niro in the upcoming gangster drama \u201cWise Guys.\u201d The movie, set at Warner Bros. and intended to play in theaters, will be directed by Barry Levinson, the veteran filmmaker who is best known for \u201cRain Man\u201d and \u201cWag the Dog.\u201d It reunites &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/robert-de-niro-to-star-in-gangster-drama-wise-guys-at-warner-bros\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert De Niro to Star in Gangster Drama &#8216;Wise Guys&#8217; at Warner Bros.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47319,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/robert-de-niro-to-star-in-warner-bros-gangster-drama-wise-guys-the-hollywood-reporter\/","url_meta":{"origin":47335,"position":0},"title":"Robert De Niro to Star in Warner Bros. 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