Street Boss

[cxo 0]

This is being filmed for 25 days in my hometown. I have no idea how big this is going to end up being, but here's an article:

http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index....&thispage=1

I'm always up for checking out mafia movies, so regardless of how much advertising this gets, I'll be watching it.

They won't give the names of the "big time hollywood actors" that are appearing in it, but every single person I know and talk to has submitted themselves in to be an extra, and the word is that Tom Hanks is playing FBI agent Phillip Kirby.

Also, it's based on a book titled: "With Honor and Purpose" in which my grandmother K. Dillon is mentioned as a female deputy who worked on the case this book is about.

I know there are a few big movie buffs on the board, so I'm curious to know if anyone else has heard about the movie yet, or even understands the story better than I do. I haven't read the book, and even though a lot of my family knows all the people who are involved in the real account that the book was written about, I still don't understand much of it.

Needless to say, it's going to need some embellishing to make it any good, since I can't imagine Saginaw mafia wannabe's doing anything that the big-time mafia guys haven't done or thought of.

[mack 44]

Sounds interesting but, though not always the most reliable site around, imdb has the writer/director/unknown starring as "Phil Kerby."

It's a gangster movie and not mafia but I've got high hopes for Public Enemies. Michael Mann directed and starring Depp and Bale? Oh dear.

[cxo 0]

I heard about that too, it does sound good. It's weird hearing about Channing Tatum being in serious movies however, since my only knowledge of him have been of the Step Up movies and the soccer flick with Nickelodeon Girl.

Seeing a Bierlien listed as the lead confuses me even more. I heard he was supposed to be one of the head writers, along with a guy from Dearborn but who knows, it could all change between now and next year.