{"id":361555,"date":"2026-03-27T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/361555\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:55:07","slug":"pete-davidson-lands-his-dream-role-as-tommy-karate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/361555\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson lands his dream role as Tommy Karate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete Davidson<\/a> is taking on what sounds like a more dramatic role than he normally does, even if it still sounds a little silly. According to Deadline<\/a>, Davidson will star as the titular character in Tommy Karate, a crime-thriller following mafia hitman Tommy Pitera. The film will be based on Philip Carlo\u2019s non-fiction book The Butcher: Anatomy Of A Mafia Psychopath, and is set to also star Paul Walter Hauser as Jim Hunt, the DEA agent cat to Davidson\u2019s mouse. Justin Chon will direct the picture with Simon Rex and Camila Mendes co-starring.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTommy Karate is the greatest mob story never told,\u201d says Davidson in a statement. \u201cI\u2019ve been working on this for over three years, and I\u2019m beyond thrilled that it\u2019s finally in motion. Playing a role like this is a dream job. We have a great team behind this one, and I can\u2019t wait for people to see what we\u2019ve come up with.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Based on some quick Wikipedia perusing<\/a>, Davidson might have a point. Pitera was born in Brooklyn in the 1950s and, after being ostracized from the school baseball team and becoming obsessed with The Green Hornet, took up karate. He eventually spent more than two years studying karate in Tokyo before coming back to Brooklyn and joining the Bonanno crime family, where a career as a hit man and a superb nickname were born. When he was eventually indicted in 1990, investigators believed he had committed up to 60 murders, often dismembering the bodies and burying them in a Staten Island wildlife refuge. Pitera was eventually convicted of six murders and is currently serving a life sentence. Sounds like there\u2019s plenty here for Davidson to sink his teeth into.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson is taking on what sounds like a more dramatic role than he normally does, even if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-361555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}