Tony Sokol Feb 1, 2017
The Black Hand is set to be the new Leonardo DiCaprio project...
Leonardo Dicapio, who played a street tough in Martin Scorsese’s early New York City crime drama Gangs Of New York, will again clean up those city streets in the upcoming The Black Hand. DiCaprio will produce and star in an adaptation of the book by Stephan Talty for Paramount.
The Black Hand: The Epic War Between A Brilliant Detective And The Deadliest Secret Society In American History will be published in April. The story is set in New York City in crime wave of the summer of 1903. A group of new immigrant criminals was preying on lower Manhattan and leaving a calling card with the figure of a Black Hand at crime scenes. DiCaprio will play Detective Joseph Petrosino, who was called 'Italian Sherlock Holmes', who took the fight against crime from New York to Sicily.
The Black Hand is set to be the new Leonardo DiCaprio project...
Leonardo Dicapio, who played a street tough in Martin Scorsese’s early New York City crime drama Gangs Of New York, will again clean up those city streets in the upcoming The Black Hand. DiCaprio will produce and star in an adaptation of the book by Stephan Talty for Paramount.
The Black Hand: The Epic War Between A Brilliant Detective And The Deadliest Secret Society In American History will be published in April. The story is set in New York City in crime wave of the summer of 1903. A group of new immigrant criminals was preying on lower Manhattan and leaving a calling card with the figure of a Black Hand at crime scenes. DiCaprio will play Detective Joseph Petrosino, who was called 'Italian Sherlock Holmes', who took the fight against crime from New York to Sicily.
- 1/31/2017
- Den of Geek
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in and produce an adaptation of The Black Hand, a book by Stephan Talty.
Paramount has acquired the rights to the book, and DiCaprio will produce through his Appian Way banner along with The Gotham Group's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jeremy Bell. Jennifer Davisson also is producing with Nathaniel Posey.
The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History, which will hit shelves in April, is set in New York City in the summer of 1903 when a crime wave hit the city. The perpetrators left a calling...
Paramount has acquired the rights to the book, and DiCaprio will produce through his Appian Way banner along with The Gotham Group's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jeremy Bell. Jennifer Davisson also is producing with Nathaniel Posey.
The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History, which will hit shelves in April, is set in New York City in the summer of 1903 when a crime wave hit the city. The perpetrators left a calling...
- 1/31/2017
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Appian Way, which has broadened its slate in features and moved into television, has promoted Michael Hampton and Nathaniel Posey to co-vice president status and has named James Ward to be creative executive to help handle the volume. They report to Appian Way principal Leonardo DiCaprio and president of production Jennifer Davisson Killoran. Hampton and Posey are homegrown talent. Hampton worked at Lbi Entertainment before moving to Appian Way two years ago and has steered development of Graveland, which Brian koppelman & David Levien are directing for New Regency; the adaptation of A. Scott Berg’s biography of U.S. President […]...
- 6/17/2014
- Deadline
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