Film About Historical Rise of Two Outfit Bosses Slated by Michael Mann
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 , will be reunited, with Mann, for a panel discussion to be hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Beverly Hills' Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. The discussion will follow a viewing of a new digital restoration of the 1995 film. As was reported earlier this year, Heat is due for a prequel by Mann. The acclaimed filmmaker has also stated that he'd approved a true-crime novelization for his new publishing label, Michael Mann Books, to detail the story of Chicago Outfit bosses Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana . For the book, the debut project for Mann's imprint, the director has teamed up with Don Winslow , the bestselling author of The Cartel "to co-create an original novel about the complex relationship between two Organized ...