THE BOOKIE & THE BRUISER: Adrien Brody And Vince Vaughn Topline ‘Brawl In Cell Block 99’ Director’s New Gangster Thriller
Vince Vaughn is reteaming with Dragged Across Concrete and Brawl In Cell Block 99 director S. Craig Zahler on new gangster thriller The Bookie & the Bruiser. The film will also star Clean and Asteroid City actor Adrien Brody as production slates a late 2024 start date.
The Bookie & the Bruiser has Zahler directing from his script which is set in 1959 New York City. The story centers on “a pensive, Jewish fellow named Rivner and an oversized Italian-American tough named Boscolo from the Lower East Side, both of whom served overseas in World War II and returned changed men who no longer fit inside the lives they’d left behind.”
The logline adds, “Uninterested in taking orders from bosses or playing by the rules of polite society, the two friends partner up as a bookmaker and an enforcer and create an illicit gambling operation that proves to be very profitable, though risky, and their situation gets rather sticky when they find themselves stuck between a powerful Irish gang and the Mafia.”
Anthony Katagas (We Own The Night, Uncut Gems, Amazon’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”) is producing via his Keep Your Head Productions label alongside Dave Caplan. C2 Motion Picture Group is fully financing the project, which international sales outlet Anton will take to buyers at the upcoming Marche du Film. UTA Independent Film Group and Range Media Partners arranged the financing and will be representing the North American distribution rights.
“We are thrilled to be working with the visionary S. Craig Zahler on this action-packed tale of a searing conflict between the Irish-American and Italian Mafias in New York and see Vince and Adrien team up in this very unique power charged film,” says Anton CEO Sébastien Raybaud.
“I’m honored and humbled to be working with one of my favorite filmmakers. A S. Craig Zahler’s gangster movie is something I’m dying watch!” said Dave Caplan.
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