Badfellas
Robert De Niro & director Luc Besson are set to team up for a gangster thriller...
Robert De Niro will be stepping back into familiar shoes with his role in French director Luc Besson's Malavita, playing a gangster. Well, a former one.
Based on the book, Badfellas, by Tonino Benacquista, the film follows a former gangster now living in Normandy with his family under Witness Protection, but we can guess things don't go according to plan...
The material's been described as being light and offering up Sopranos-style humour, which is in tune with modern-day De Niro who is quite happy to play his past career - namely that of him portraying a gangster - for laughs.
Besson has also been in talks to direct an actioner penned by himself and Adi Hasak, which has the working title Three Days To Kill. Somewhat troublingly, it's been pitched as "Taken but with lots of humour"...
