William Monahan ("The Departed," "Kingdom of Heaven") has been brought onboard to rewrite the Mark Wahlberg vehicle "American Desperado" at Paramount Pictures. The story follows notorious '70s drug dealer Jon Roberts who moved from New York, where he was involved in gangland takeovers of the city's nightclubs, to Miami where he was set up with a … [Read more...]
Scorsese, Monahan Re-Team For “Gambler”
August 29, 2011 by
"The Departed" director Martin Scorsese and scribe William Monahan are teaming for another remake, this time Karel Reisz's 1974 drama "The Gambler" says Deadline. The original film is loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short novel of the same name and followed a New York City English professor (James Caan) with a basketball game gambling … [Read more...]
