Film About Historical Rise of Two Outfit Bosses Slated by Michael Mann
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Tony Accardo, aka "Joe Batters", was nicknamed by Al Capone for his skill at pummeling people. |
On September 7, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, who were famously paired in the Michael Mann film Heat
The discussion will follow a viewing of a new digital restoration of the 1995 film.
As was reported earlier this year, Heat
Heat is Mann's widely lauded big-screen depiction of the rise and fall of a fictional crew of bank robbers and the high-powered detective who hunts them.
The Heat prequel also will be published as a book under Mann's new label, then shot as a film. As for the content of the prequel, it supposedly will focus on the formative years of Heat's major characters, Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino), Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), Chris Shihirles (Val Kilmer), and Nate (Jon Voight).
Seybold served as the film's technical adviser on the Chicago set (while the FBI still had outstanding warrants for his arrest). He was eventually imprisoned at South Woods State Prison in New Jersey from May 21, 1995 to November 2, 2001.
Heat tells the fast-paced story of the rise and fall of a crew of bank burglars. |
Mann is slated to produce and direct a film adaptation of the Accardo/Giancana book, which is listed on IMDB.com as "Untitled Tony Accardo/Sam Giancana Biopic" under the genres of biography, crime, drama.
As Vanity Fair reported:
"Keeping in line with Mann’s John Dillinger biopic Public Enemies
"Joe Batters" — nicknamed by Al Capone for his skill at pummeling people with blunt objects — aka Anthony J. Accardo died at 86 in 1992.
With nothing more than a 6th grade education, he rose from working as a bodyguard for Al Capone to the position of reputed boss of the Chicago Outfit.
At a U.S. Senate Rackets Committee hearing he was called the "godfather of Chicago organized crime . . . a legend in his own time, the heir to Al Capone."
Once Capone was put away for not paying his taxes, Accardo "then seized power little by little until fully taking over as boss in 1943, a position he held with an iron fist until ceding it to his part-protege, part-competitor (Sam) Giancana in 1957."
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