Oscar Winners Bobby Moresco & Nick Vallelonga Partner With ‘Midnight Run’ Scribe George Gallo & John Gotti Jr. For Series ‘Betrayal: John Gotti And The Fall Of La Cosa Nostra’
29.07.2022 - 21:23
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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning screenwriters Bobby Moresco (Crash) and Nick Vallelonga (Green Book) have partnered with Midnight Run scribe George Gallo and John Gotti Jr. to develop the series Betrayal examining Gambino crime family boss John Gotti and the Fall of La Cosa Notra.
The New York gangster—otherwise known as the Teflon Don, the Dapper Don—was a Caesar, an Emperor… a King. His flamboyant lifestyle and frequent public trials as the head of the Gambino crime family, which controlled New York’s largest organized-crime syndicates, made him not only a prominent figure in the 1980s and ’90s, but also one of the most well-known organized crime bosses in American history. Gotti’s rise from a loyal soldier to Boss of Bosses, and ultimately to his sentencing to life imprisonment after being betrayed by his underboss, Sammy Gravano, is legendary.
The story being packaged as a limited series will differ from past incarnations of Gotti’s life—focusing on his last years in a United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, most of which was spent in solitary confinement. Gotti at this point found himself trying to run his empire from inside a maximum-security prison, all while allowed out of his cell for only an hour a day. He gave orders through his son, John Jr., until his death from cancer in 2002, at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.
In some ways, the tale of Gotti could be considered a father-son story. The son takes the orders from his father and does his best to implement them, while on the outside, the New York streets, gangs and rules are changing rapidly. Sometimes both father and son will vehemently disagree on tactics. In this world of violence, greed and power, split-second
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