On this day in history as it relates to the movies...
1802 Alexandre Dumas is born. He dies just before cinematic technology begins to blossom so he couldn't have known that his novels like The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers series, and Queen Margot will all be adapted multiple times in a new artform.
1821 Gang leader William Poole, "Bill the Butcher" is born. Daniel Day-Lewis taps his fictional glass eye 181 years later on the big screen...
1802 Alexandre Dumas is born. He dies just before cinematic technology begins to blossom so he couldn't have known that his novels like The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers series, and Queen Margot will all be adapted multiple times in a new artform.
1821 Gang leader William Poole, "Bill the Butcher" is born. Daniel Day-Lewis taps his fictional glass eye 181 years later on the big screen...
- 7/24/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Read More: First Look: Liam Neeson In Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day Lewis), "Gangs of New York" Using 19th century New York City gang leader William Poole as a launching pad, Scorsese brings to the screen his most magnetic and monstrous villain with Bill "the Butcher" Cutting. Played with ruthless calculation and conniving intensity by Daniel Day Lewis, Cutting is a towering screen presence — you simply can't take your eyes off him. Based on Herbert Asbury's 1927 non-fiction book, "Gangs of New York" centers on Leonardo DiCaprio's Amsterdam Vallon, a young Irish immigrant who loses his father to Cutting's reign of terror and plots his revenge against him two decades later. Bringing the adult Vallon unknowingly under his wing, Cutting proves dangerous and charismatic all at once. Lewis, inhabiting the role with a blazing fire in his eyes that is impossible to put out,...
- 11/17/2015
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Johnny Depp was recently photographed in full prosthetics to play real-life Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger in the upcoming movie Black Mass.
The 50-year-old actor was wearing a balding wig cap, fake teeth, a blue open shirt with a gold chain, and a black leather jacket as he shot the film's final scenes in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Benedict Cumberbatch recently joined the cast as Whitey Bulger's brother Billy Bulger, along with Parks and Recreation's Adam Scott, who is reported to be playing FBI agent Robert Fitzpatrick.
The Scott Cooper-directed crime drama is due for release in cinemas on September 18, 2015.
Bulger spent 16 years at large and 12 years on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list before he was arrested in June 2011, aged 81. Prosecutors indicted him for 19 murders and he is currently serving two life terms.
Here are 9 other actors morphing into some of the world's most notorious real-life gangsters below:...
The 50-year-old actor was wearing a balding wig cap, fake teeth, a blue open shirt with a gold chain, and a black leather jacket as he shot the film's final scenes in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Benedict Cumberbatch recently joined the cast as Whitey Bulger's brother Billy Bulger, along with Parks and Recreation's Adam Scott, who is reported to be playing FBI agent Robert Fitzpatrick.
The Scott Cooper-directed crime drama is due for release in cinemas on September 18, 2015.
Bulger spent 16 years at large and 12 years on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list before he was arrested in June 2011, aged 81. Prosecutors indicted him for 19 murders and he is currently serving two life terms.
Here are 9 other actors morphing into some of the world's most notorious real-life gangsters below:...
- 7/23/2014
- Digital Spy
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