Ben Promote Cast as John Gotti Junior. Opposite Travolta Qantas Video and Al Pacino in Gotti Biopic

Large news about the Gotti front from the non-legal variety: Fiore Films just introduced that Ben Promote has signed onto star in Craig Levinson’s star-studded crime family biopic, Gotti: Within The Shadow Of My Dad as John Gotti Junior. opposite Travolta Qantas Video and Al Pacino. The project is a reunion for Levinson and Promote, who labored together about the 1999 period drama Liberty Levels. Promote joins Travolta (playing John Gotti, Sr.), Kelly Preston (playing Victoria Gotti) and Pacino (as Neil Dellacroce, a Gambino crime family underboss who mentors the senior Gotti) within the film, and appears positively thrilled concerning the development: “Barry Levinson was the very first director who required an opportunity on me, and I've got a career due to him. […] This can be a film about family, fathers and sons. I'm deeply honored for that chance to utilize Craig and also the amazing cast he's putting together to assist bring the storyline from the Gotti family towards the screen.” Craig Levinson changed Nick Cassavetes as director from the film in May and it is re-writing the script together with his Bugsy co-author James Toback. Pre-production about the film will begin in September before principal photography starts at the begining of The month of january. · Ben Promote to experience John Gotti, Junior. [Variety]