"Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI,
and a Devil's Deal" Book to Movie
Although
this book/movie is entirely about the "brutality" of IRISH Gangster
James "Whitey" Bulger, who was able to
"co-opt" corrupt Law Enforcement officials, from the local level up
to the FBI.
If the
corruption of Law Enforcement officials was not a startling enough story in
itself, "Whitey" younger brother, Billy was the
iron-fisted president of the Massachusetts State Senate, and later president of
the University of Massachusetts, and is suspected of using his enormous
influence to aid his brother.
And yet, this
Press Release focuses on a "MAFIA-FBI Saga" !!!!
Also, in The
New York Times, attorney-author Alan Dershowitz said:
"['Black Mass'] is at once a uniquely
Is
EVERYTHING somehow have a nexus to the Mafia
including Global Warming?????? :) :)
LOS
ANGELES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/06/2006 -- A group headed by Arthaus Pictures has acquired the motion picture rights to
the best-selling book "Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil's
Deal," and has begun development of a film on about its main character,
fugitive underworld figure Whitey Bulger.
Written by prize-winning
Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill "Black Mass" is a
true-crime saga about FBI corruption and the uniquely savage
Brian Oliver ("Auto
Focus") and Joseph Nittolo ("A Man
Apart") will produce the film for Arthaus
Pictures and will begin talking with studios next week. "Black Mass"
screenwriter Mark Mallouk is also the screenwriter of
"The Wheat Field." The script for "Black Mass" is expected
to be finished in mid-April.
Recent projects by Oliver
and Nittolo include "Legion," a
psychological thriller set on the Mexican border, and "The Wheat
Field," a gripping story of sex, politics and betrayal, both of which are
in development.
"'Black Mass' goes to
the core of the war between the government and the mob," says Oliver.
"It shows us how easy the good guys can begin the descent into lying,
breaking the rules and ignoring the law."
Whitey Bulger
is now near the top of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List just below Osama bin
Laden, and there is a $1 million reward for his capture. He is a figure of
unending fascination, featured 12 times on "America's Most Wanted"
and most recently was the subject of a CBS "60 Minutes" investigation.
In a review for The New
York Times attorney-author Alan Dershowitz said:
"['Black Mass'] is at once a uniquely Boston tale about Italian-Irish
rivalries in organized crime, law enforcement and politics, and a parable of
what happens when law enforcement officers get too close to their
informers." Amazon.com said it "paints a vivid portrait of
"Black Mass" won
the MWA's 2001 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.
Co-author Gerard O'Neill has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Sigma Delta Chi
Awards. Dick Lehr has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Hancock and
Loeb awards. Together they wrote the highly praised "The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family."
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