After changing its director and its title, Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father is getting ready to roll cameras this coming January, and it may do so with a rising star in a major role. As ShowBiz411 (via ThePlaylist) has heard, Captain America and The Devil’s Double actor Dominic Cooper is now rumored to be playing the son of John Travolta‘s John Gotti, in the role of John Gotti Jr.
People are already pointing out that he has no real resemblance to the actual man, who also happens to be a producer on the movie, but the guy is talented enough where I wouldn’t consider it to be a real problem — not only that, but he knows this kind of part. This Friday, in fact, he’ll be seen as Uday “Son of Saddam” Hussein in The Devil’s Double; there would definitely be an interesting...
People are already pointing out that he has no real resemblance to the actual man, who also happens to be a producer on the movie, but the guy is talented enough where I wouldn’t consider it to be a real problem — not only that, but he knows this kind of part. This Friday, in fact, he’ll be seen as Uday “Son of Saddam” Hussein in The Devil’s Double; there would definitely be an interesting...
- 7/28/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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