Exclusive: Film is based on the real-life story of the NYPD detetcive who first uncovered the Vatican Bank’s links to the Mafia.
Michael Winterbottom is to direct The Vatican Connection about the real-life story of the NYPD detective who first uncovered the Vatican Bank’s links to the Mafia in the 1970s.
Detective Joe Coffey was working undercover in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, tailing a vicious local mobster, when he stumbled upon information linking the Vatican Bank and the Mafia.
His global investigation – taking him from New York to Munich, London and Rome - revealed that Vatican Bank president Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, was working with the Mafia to hide losses incurred by the institution as it financed anti-Communist missions in central America.
Through intermediaries Archbishop Marcinkus had the Genovese Crime Family of New York manufacture and supply the Vatican Bank with $6 billion dollars of counterfeit blue chip bonds from major Us corporations.
Winterbottom will work...
Michael Winterbottom is to direct The Vatican Connection about the real-life story of the NYPD detective who first uncovered the Vatican Bank’s links to the Mafia in the 1970s.
Detective Joe Coffey was working undercover in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, tailing a vicious local mobster, when he stumbled upon information linking the Vatican Bank and the Mafia.
His global investigation – taking him from New York to Munich, London and Rome - revealed that Vatican Bank president Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, was working with the Mafia to hide losses incurred by the institution as it financed anti-Communist missions in central America.
Through intermediaries Archbishop Marcinkus had the Genovese Crime Family of New York manufacture and supply the Vatican Bank with $6 billion dollars of counterfeit blue chip bonds from major Us corporations.
Winterbottom will work...
- 5/16/2014
- ScreenDaily
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- 1/28/2014
- by Nate Jones
- PEOPLE.com
Goodlfellas co-writer Nicholas Pileggi is moving forward with a film based on the life of Lucky Luciano. The filmmaker will write and produce the film based on the bio The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, which is said to be the definitive story of Luciano.
Writers Martin Gosch and Richard Hammer collaborated with Luciano on the book. Luciano was holding a copy of the manuscript when he died of a heart attack while meeting with Gosch and Hammer at a airport in Naples.
Pileggi is producing the film alongside Bob Debrino (Find Me Guilty), Gray Fredrickson (The Godfather) and Sally Lear.
Source: Deadline...
Writers Martin Gosch and Richard Hammer collaborated with Luciano on the book. Luciano was holding a copy of the manuscript when he died of a heart attack while meeting with Gosch and Hammer at a airport in Naples.
Pileggi is producing the film alongside Bob Debrino (Find Me Guilty), Gray Fredrickson (The Godfather) and Sally Lear.
Source: Deadline...
- 6/20/2013
- by Philip Sticco
- LRMonline.com
Exclusive: Producers Bob DeBrino (Find Me Guilty), Gray Fredrickson (The Godfather), Sally Lear and Goodfellas writer-producer Nicholas Pileggi are taking a shot at making the definitive film on mobster Lucky Luciano. They’ve optioned The Last Testament Of Lucky Luciano, a book by Martin Gosch and Richard Hammer that the producers feel is the only bio the Gotham gangster authorized and collaborated on with the writers. They interviewed Luciano while he lived in exile in Naples, Italy, and Luciano met with Gosch at Naples airport, where he was given the completed manuscript of his story. During their meeting Luciano died from an unexpected heart attack, clutching the story of his life in his hands. Members of the underworld and law enforcement question, “Was it a heart attack, or was he silenced before he could tell his story.”And what a story Luciano had to tell. Beyond his rise in organized crime,...
- 6/20/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
"American Psycho" producers Edward Pressman and Chris Hanley are reuniting to adapt Richard Hammer's controversial book "The Vatican Connection" into a feature film says The Hollywood Reporter.
Penned in the early 80's, the book is based on speculation surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I and alleged corruption within the Vatican involving both the Mafia and the Freemasons.
John Penotti, Jeff Most and Bob DeBrino are also producing the film which will use the source material to craft a thriller.
Penned in the early 80's, the book is based on speculation surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I and alleged corruption within the Vatican involving both the Mafia and the Freemasons.
John Penotti, Jeff Most and Bob DeBrino are also producing the film which will use the source material to craft a thriller.
- 2/8/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The folks at THR tell us that Chris Hanley and Edward Pressman, the producers of 2000′s American Psycho, have re-optioned the rights to Richard Hammer‘s 1982 book The Vatican Connection. Hanley, John Penotti, Jeff Most, and Bob DeBrino will be producing the adaptation, with Pressman serving as executive producer.
The nonfiction book follows the work of New York City police detective Joseph Coffey, whose career-long war against the Mafia led to the uncovering of a billion-dollar counterfeit stocks and bonds scam, one which connected the Mafia to the Vatican of Pope Paul VI, all through Italian banker Roberto Calvi. Calvi‘s bank was later shut down in the early 1980s, after 1.3 billion dollars went missing and his body was found hanging under a London bridge. Whether it was a suicide or a murder… that’s still up for debate. The producers are planning to reframe the real-life story into that of a thriller,...
The nonfiction book follows the work of New York City police detective Joseph Coffey, whose career-long war against the Mafia led to the uncovering of a billion-dollar counterfeit stocks and bonds scam, one which connected the Mafia to the Vatican of Pope Paul VI, all through Italian banker Roberto Calvi. Calvi‘s bank was later shut down in the early 1980s, after 1.3 billion dollars went missing and his body was found hanging under a London bridge. Whether it was a suicide or a murder… that’s still up for debate. The producers are planning to reframe the real-life story into that of a thriller,...
- 2/8/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Chris Hanley (American Psycho), John Penotti (Awake), Jeff Most (The Crow) and Bob DeBrino (Find Me Guilty) are set to produce an adaptation of Richard Hammer's controversial book The Vatican Connection. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps producer Edward Pressman (American Psycho) will be an executive producer on the project. Hammer, a former New York Times journalist, wrote the book in the early Eighties based on rumors surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I and alleged corruption in the Vatican involving the Mafia and the Freemasons. The producers have re-optioned the book and plan to spin it into a thriller.
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- 2/7/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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