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The Twentieth Century Fox has the pleasure to announce to have acquired the rights of distribution for the our Country (cinema, home-video and television) of the expected film of Martin Scorsese, "Gangs of New York". Turned in Italy, in the studies of Cinecitt? (where the New York of half has faithfully been reconstructed the 800 - the resumptions are begun August 30 th 2000), the screen-play is inspired to the homonym historical novel of the 1928 of Herbert Ashbury. The circumstance, situated among 1846 and 1863, it narrates of how the Italian and Irish gangs (subsequently you unite under the name of "mafia"), they began their activities in the area of New York City. Her two gangs to the center of the history are those of the Dead Rabbits and of the Native Americanses: the film is opened with the killing of the leader of the Rabbitses (Liam Neeson) and from the consequent ascent of the Native ones, whose head, Bill "The Butcher" Poole (Daniel Day Lewis), it enters society with the corrupt Boss Tweed for the political dominion of the city. Years later, the child of the dead leader of the Dead Rabbits, Amsterdam Vallon, interpreted from Leonardo Of Caprio, it reconstitutes her/it gang in key more... modern and it plans to avenge the death of his/her/their father. Some imposing casts make part also Cameron Diaz, Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Devon Murray, Pete Postletwhite, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas, Ford Kiernan. The fact that the distribution of a production of this level, for more realized in Italy, (with an interpreter, then, as Of Caprio that, in our Country, it is also come to the search of his roots- his/her father is Italian), has been entrusted to the Twentieth Century Fox, you/he/she is motive of correct pride and satisfaction. |
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