Academy Award-nominated director Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Scarlet Letter) is seeking to inform the story of what actually occurred in the course of the 48 hours main as much as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, no less than in line with mob bosses.
The upcoming movie, titled November 1963: The Killing of a President, will cowl the mob’s model of occasions, which have been handed all the way down to Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana’s nephew, Nicholas Celozzi, by Sam’s brother, the late Joseph “Pepe” Giancana, who drove round together with his brother Sam throughout these two days.
Celozzi talked to Selection in regards to the ongoing curiosity within the circumstances surrounding JFK’s assassination, even 60 years later, saying:
“The explanation why there’s this fascination or anxiousness is as a result of folks know that what they’ve heard to this point doesn’t make sense. They hold speaking about it as a result of they’re ready to listen to one thing that makes extra frequent sense.”
Celozzi, whose movie producing and writing credit embody The Authentic Wiseguy, The Class, and the documentary Momo: The Sam Giancana Story, penned the screenplay based mostly on what Pepe informed him. Pepe informed younger Celozzi, who already was within the movie enterprise, to share the story at some point.
“My uncle and I have been very shut once I was a bit of little child,” Celozzi recollects. Regardless that he all the time knew the story was ripe for a movie adaptation, he waited for the suitable second to inform it.
The challenge, previously generally known as 2 Days/1963 and Assassination, was beforehand set as much as star Courtney Love, Viggo Mortensen, Shia LaBeouf, Al Pacino and John Travolta, with David Mamet to direct and co-write with Celozzi. Barry Levinson later stepped in as director, however the challenge by no means got here to fruition.
The story took new life when Sam Giancana’s center daughter (and Celozzi’s cousin), Bonnie Giancana, got here on board. “To be fairly frank with you, she didn’t just like the folks I used to be working with on the time. She wasn’t able to personally become involved as nicely. So there have been two issues that form of held her again. After which once I form of broke free and began altering people that I used to be working with, she was extra apt to come back alongside and work with me on the story,” Celozzi says.
“I’m not going to fictionalize,” he provides. “I’m staying together with his story, versus including my very own interpretation. I wrote all the things down and simply relaying his story. And that’s the screenplay that I wrote.”
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