Over this illustrious profession, Robert De Niro has achieved all of it within the true-crime style. From taking part in a gangster in Martin Scorsese’s seminal basic Goodfellas to starring within the 10-time Oscar-nominated movie The Irishman, De Niro isn’t any stranger to committing crime on-screen within the mid-1900s. And he isn’t stopping anytime quickly. Barry Levinson, the Academy Award-winning director of Rain Man, is tackling The Alto Knights, an upcoming thriller that stars De Niro as two totally different real-life crime bosses. Sure, it is a De Niro vs. De Niro affair.
After by chance releasing the trailer yesterday, Warner Bros. Footage formally unveiled the primary footage for The Alto Knights. The trailer options De Niro taking part in Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, two dueling mob bosses on the peak of organized crime in New York. Not solely does De Niro pull off two totally different voices and accents for the roles, however he undergoes a drastic bodily transformation for every mobster. As a substitute of heavy CGI work as seen in The Irishman, it appears De Niro is roofed in copious quantities of make-up and prosthetics. To be trustworthy, going by voice alone, it’s kind of laborious to distinguish the 2 variations of De Niro, particularly when the characters are seen interacting face-to-face within the trailer. Nevertheless, The Alto Knights is not precisely attempting to cover the actual fact one of many biggest actors of all time is pulling double responsibility.
Along with De Niro taking part in Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, the stacked solid of Alto Knights contains Debra Messing, Cosmo Jarvis, Kathrine Narducci, Michael Rispol, Michael Adler, Ed Amatrudo, Joe Bacino, Anthony J. Gallo, Wallace Langham, Louis Mustillo, Frank Piccirillo, Matt Servitto, and Robert Uricola. Nicholas Pileggi, the Academy Award-nominated co-writer of Goodfellas, wrote The Alto Knights. Take a look at the official synopsis:
“The movie follows two of New York’s most infamous organized crime bosses, Frank Costello (De Niro) and Vito Genovese (De Niro), as they vie for management of town’s streets. As soon as the very best of mates, petty jealousies and a sequence of betrayals place them on a lethal collision course that may reshape the Mafia (and America) perpetually.”
Is Robert De Niro Going In Circles at This Level?
Look, we’ll by no means reject one other probability to see Robert De Niro do some crime in New York within the Fifties. However is it time to hold up the crime mobster cap? The Alto Knights trailer may need simply made that argument for us. The movie seems like a riveting story about dueling bosses through the turning level of an period, and De Niro will possible pull off the double act in spades. Nevertheless, it is laborious to think about that De Niro is taking part in in unfamiliar territory this time round. Taking part in two characters in the identical movie is subversive to an extent, but when it is a related position to his earlier ones in his intensive filmography, the query stays related.
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With all of that being stated, the undoubtedly troublesome enterprise of The Alto Knights may very well be the proper closing hurrah for De Niro within the true crime style. It is laborious to think about he can have momentum for the awards season because the film releases in March and never later within the yr, however the Oscar-winning expertise in entrance and behind the display screen is sufficient to get most butts in theaters after which some. The long-awaited movie may very well be De Niro’s closing bout within the mafia ring, and one that may sit alongside an extended listing of unbelievable crime dramas by the legendary actor.
The Alto Knights is about to launch in theaters on March 21.