{"id":261017,"date":"2025-11-13T19:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261017\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:45:06","slug":"john-woo-nicolas-cage-reunite-after-face-off-for-gambino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261017\/","title":{"rendered":"John Woo & Nicolas Cage Reunite After ‘Face\/Off’ For ‘Gambino’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: \u201cIt\u2019s like looking in a mirror, only\u201d \u2026 30 years later. Almost three decades after they graced screens with wild action pic Face\/Off, movie legends John Woo<\/a> and Nicolas Cage<\/a> are teaming up again on crime biopic Gambino<\/a> about notorious New York crime kingpin Carlo Gambino.<\/p>\n

\n\tGeorge Gallo (Bad Boys\u00a0franchise)\u00a0and Oscar winner Nick Vallelonga (Green Book) have scripted the project, which WME Independent is launching for sales at this week\u2019s American Film Market.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie will follow Oscar winner Cage\u2019s Carlo\u00a0Gambino, a butcher\u2019s son from Sicily, who rules New York\u2019s underworld with quiet authority. But when his death sends shockwaves through the city, Pulitzer-winning journalist Jimmy Breslin follows the trail he left behind to uncover the man beneath the legend.\u00a0Through the voices of those who loved him and those who feared him, Breslin peels back the composure that masked\u00a0Gambino\u2019s ruthlessness, revealing how this outsider rose to redefine power, loyalty and the American dream.<\/p>\n

\n\tGambino was one of the most notorious figures in organized crime in America last century. The Sicilian boss was leader and namesake of the Gambino crime family of New York, playing a powerful role in mob matters for more than 50 years until his death in 1976.<\/p>\n

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\n\tGambino was revealed a few years ago but has been totally retooled with director Woo, star Cage, seller WME and new producers and financiers.<\/p>\n

\n\tMudbound and The Butler producer Cassian Elwes\u00a0now is producing with Edward Zeng (Following Harry) of NextG Films,\u00a0Robert\u00a0Daly Jr and David Lipper of\u00a0Latigo Films (Not Without Hope). NextG Films is financing. Cage, Gallo and Vallelonga\u00a0also will produce. John Burnham is an executive producer. <\/p>\n

\n\tIndustry vet Elwes and Chinese tech entrepreneur and\u00a0NextG founder Edward Zeng\u00a0last year launched a $100M fund to invest in movies.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt NextG Film, our vision is to unite the finest creative talents of Hollywood with the bold entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley,\u201d Zeng said. \u201cTogether, we aim to deliver an epic cinematic experience that brings audiences back to the theater again and again \u2014 an experience that not only entertains, but inspires people to reflect on the world we live in today. Humanity stands at a crossroads. Through powerful storytelling and innovative artistry, we hope to remind everyone that the future is ours to shape, and it is our shared responsibility to make it better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tFace\/Off wasn\u2019t the last time Woo and Cage teamed up. They in fact worked together in 2002 on WWII pic Windtalkers. So it\u2019s 23 years since their last rodeo.<\/p>\n

\n\tAction supremo Woo, master of the \u201cbullet ballet,\u201d is known for such iconic movies as The Killer and Hard Boiled as well as Hollywood pics Hard Target, Face\/Off and Mission: Impossible II. He most recently remade The Killer for Peacock with Omar Sy, Sam Worthington and Nathalie Emmanuel.<\/p>\n

\n\tLeaving Las Vegas Oscar winner Cage made waves last year with horror Longlegs and has Spider-Noir, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse and John Madden biopic Madden in production. He\u2019s also aiming to film the Lords of War sequel soon.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a fun twist, Cage\u2019s Face\/Off co-star John Travolta previously played another Gambino boss, John Gotti, in a 2018 biopic.<\/p>\n

\n\tCage is represented by WME, Stride Management and Patrick Knapp at GGSSC. John Woo is represented by IAG, Burnham at Atlas Artists and Tom Hansen and Stuart Bookman at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: \u201cIt\u2019s like looking in a mirror, only\u201d \u2026 30 years later. Almost three decades after they graced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[91947,6491,96,107917,107918,38007,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-261017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-afm","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gambino","12":"tag-john-woo","13":"tag-nicolas-cage","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}