Robert De Niro has famously performed mobsters on display earlier than, and it seems he is able to dive again in to the style for Smart Guys. The brand new film, which marks the most recent collaboration between De Niro and director Barry Levinson, might be based mostly on a real story.

Smart Guys focuses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, two Italian-American crime bosses that ran their respective households in the course of the twentieth century. In 1957, Genovese tried to assassinate Costello however failed, though he was wounded and determined to retire, as a lot as one can retire from the Mafia.

And in line with The Hollywood Reporter, De Niro will play each predominant males,

The mob film connections, in the meantime, proceed with Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote the e book Wiseguy from which Martin Scorsese made Goodfellas. Right here, Pileggi wrote the script based mostly on one other true crime story.

Such a throwback concept that includes a solid and inventive core whose collective age is roughly one thousand years, is an enormous flag plant for Warner Bros. Discovery and its new govt regime – which has gone on a cancellation spree with initiatives by youthful creators, a lot of color and now zeroing on a tried and examined mob story.