Robert De Niro will star in his next film

Robert de Niro will star in

, a straight-up gangster film by Barry Levinson.

On the plot side, we should not expect a revolution of the genre, since the film will be devoted to the crossed destinies of Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, two barons of the Italian-American underworld of the mid-1950s.

No, the originality of the project is elsewhere: according to Variety, Robert De Niro should embody the two antagonists, which immediately gives a little more water to the mouth.

Not amateurs

Then, to finish reassuring himself, the writing was entrusted to Nicholas Pileggi, to whom we owe the scenarios of Les

and

, Martin Scorsese's classics in which we find Robert De Niro.

And for those to whom the name of Barry Levinson would mean nothing, he signed classics such as

or

, but also worked many times with the Hollywood veteran.

They collaborated on

(1996),

(1997) as well as

(2008), and more recently the series

, in which Robert De Niro plays Bernard Madoff.

Finally, it should be noted that Irwin Winkler, who recently made some headlines because of his estrangement with Sylvester Stallone concerning the

franchise , is one of the producers of the film.

In any case, with such a team, something tells us that

should be worth a look!

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