CANNES, France - Baltimore boy Barry Levinson likes to tell stories of insiders, on his beloved hometown or one of the most famous families crime in America.
Levinson, the Director of the Academy Award-winning of "Rain Man" has settled on the history of mob boss John Gotti SR. and his son for his next film and some time later, he hopes to close a series of films Baltimore, that it has started there is 30 years with "Dinner."
The writer, producer and Director whose work includes "Good Morning, Viet Nam," "Bugsy", "Ties" and TV "Homicide: life on the street" said his big screen saga "Gotti: three generations" comes directly from the source. The film is based on the history of the life of John Gotti Jr.
"You are really nice to get an inside look of the man who lived, which was in fact the mafia there Chief and his father, who was probably the largest, most well known figure" Levinson, 69, said in an interview at the Cannes Film Festival "".where the filmmakers have been meeting with journalists and potential distributors overseas. "It fascinated me to hear the stories to get an idea of the man, get an idea of how he sees his father."
Levinson is currently revising the script and said he expects to start at the beginning of the year next shooting on "Gotti," will be star John Travolta: Gotti SR., who led the Gambino family prior to his conviction of murder, 1992extortion and other charges. Gotti died in federal prison in 2002.
The film will be co-star Al Pacino Gotti mentor Neil Dellacroce, Lindsay Lohan: wife of Gotti Jr. and spouse of real life of the Travolta, Kelly Preston, as the wife of Gotti Sr.
Yet to be cast is the role of the Gotti Jr., who followed his father in the crowd but claims he will become later disappointed and sought to leave the family business.
"gotti" is a grouping of Pacino and Levinson, who worked last year Telefilm "you Don't Know Jack," which won the actor an Emmy as Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
Levinson has maintained a populist touch on television, but its large public screen have decreased since the end of the 1990s, when he made films such as crime and political satire "wag the dog" drama "sleepers."
While "gotti" has a large scope, Levinson said that he considers never the commercial prospects when settling on film projects, saying the success he made were not considered full big at the beginning.
"Nobody would have said"Rain Man,"a story about autism, would do what he did," Levinson said the Oscar best-picture winner, who made $ 172 million at the box office national. "If you were chasing after the big ideas to be major successes, which would have been a."
"'Good Morning, Viet Nam' was not seen in this way." Viet Nam films were not exactly inflamed, and then do something that is obtained through her humor. "They were very nervous about this piece."
The film a top 100 million.
Dustin Hoffman - who has won an Oscar for "Rain Man", in which he plays with Tom Cruise best-actor - said that as a Director who wrote also, Levinson has the confidence and ease to play with the screenplay while filming is underway.
"He was constantly changing and sculpture he was just an incredibly good time", said Hoffman, who also played in "wag the dog" and "Sleepers." "We were trying just to make day to day which we had a sense of authenticity".
Due in theatres this year is a small production of Levinson, "The Bay", a documentary-style thriller, he shot a calendar tight 18 days and a tiny $ 2 million budget. The film tells an ecological disaster in Chesapeake Bay.
After "gotti," Levinson is looking ahead to what he said will be the last chapter of his stories of Baltimore, which began with "Dinner" and continued with "Tin Men", "avalon" and "Liberty heights."
This last installment of Baltimore would concentrate on a period of great change in American culture, defined between the last group to come through dinner"around 1967, said Levinson.
"If you married in 66 and those who marry in 66, early 67, they were almost become boys the same age, but from two different generations," Levinson said. "" "". Those who married will be attached to the generation of their fathers, and those that will be attached to the hippie generation. ?
The film will focus on this "huge break that took place and the effects on the guy, good and bad", said Levinson.
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