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The Cageaissance just keeps rolling on, baby! Over the last half-decade, Nicolas Cage's career has entered a new purple patch, with the Hollywood icon (mostly) escaping the clutches of DTV hell to thrill us in wildly varying projects — from melancholic truffle hunter epic Pig, to meta-comic thigh-slapper The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, to occult horror Longlegs, noodle-twisting multi-Cager Dream Scenario, and trippy wave-catching revenger The Surfer. Now, amid ongoing talk of an upcoming Face/Off sequel, Cage is reuniting with his OG Face/Off director John Woo for Gambino, a mob epic about real-life Sicilian crime boss Carlo Gambino.
As reported by Variety, Woo — who most recently worked on a remake of his own classic The Killer — is set to direct Gambino from a screenplay by Bad Boys' George Gallo and Green Book's Nick Vallelonga, with Cage taking on the titular role. The movie is set to use the investigative work of Pulitzer winning journalist Jimmy Breslin in the wake of Gambino's death as a framing device to dig into the story of a butcher's son who rose through the ranks to become a lynchpin of New York's criminal underworld. Per the description of the movie shared by Variety, "through the voices of those who loved him and those who feared him, Breslin peels back the composure that masked Gambino’s ruthlessness, revealing how this outsider rose to redefine power, loyalty, and the American dream."
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Now, as Gotti taught us not so very long ago, when you make a gangster epic with one of the co-leads of Face/Off things can go very wrong, very quickly. But with Cage resurgent in recent years, Woo having proven he's still got it where it counts with festive actioner Silent Night just last year, and even just the prospect of another Woo-Cage team-up enough to get our pulses racing, we'd be childish not to find ourselves committed to going all-in on Gambino. Let's just hope it's the next domino that needs to topple for Face/Off 2 to finally happen. We still believe!