Aren't you getting a little sick of the Gotti story though? I know you read about the mafia and you must agree it's the most retold mob story of the last 25 years, and maybe the second most told after Capone. I must admit due to that i'm not looking forward to it as much as i would have ten years ago.
Someone brought up the idea of a Philly film once starting with Chicken Man blowing up and going right through Scarfo and Merlino's reigns. Maybe even two films. I dunno that's something i'd have preferred.
I agree with what you're saying, between
Getting Gotti (1994),
Gotti (1996),
Witness to the Mob (1998),
Boss of Bosses (2001),
Sinatra Club (2010), and more recently
Rob the Mob (2014) and
The Wannabe (2015), Gotti and the Gotti Era is overexposed. Though, as a genre, the gangster film is a highly cyclical one, and I just think we're at the end/beginning of another type of cycle with the disappointment/failure of
Black Mass (2015),
Legend (2015), and especially
Live by Night (2016).
Gotti (2017) feels like familiar territory (especially since Kevin Connolly is directing) an almost sort of comfort food movie so we can maybe have a decent gangster movie come out. It's also been in development since 2011, so I'm just glad they can
finally shell this thing out.
I think a movie or a series of movies going through Scarfo and Merlino's reigns would have been something more interesting, or a
"Silver Dollar Sam" Carolla,
Carlos Marcello, or
Anthony Carolla (more shameless self promotion) movie taking place in New Orleans, since the Mafia as a whole on the East Coast is also overdone.
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