Telling that to his father was the toughest thing he ever had to do, he admits.
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“The movie is seen through my eyes,” Junior says. But Junior has insisted he wants the movie to portray the compassionate side of his ruthless, murdering dad, who will be played by John Travolta for a reported $10 million. The Gambino godfather, who withered away from cancer in a prison hospital in 2002, had been a captivating one-man crime show on the New York City stage, swaggering around in handmade suits and smirking from the defense table in court. Movie wiseguy Joe Pesci’s name also was unceremoniously blacked out on the movie poster after he sued Levinson for changing his part as the don’s best pal. But Lohan was in “GoodFella” company, he said. call from Lohan.įiore, a small-time Wall Street crook who went to jail for securities fraud, could do nothing but listen to Lilo bawling like a baby into his ear. “He wasn’t interested in Lohan,” said, which Fiore heard about in an emotional 2 a.m. Done deal.įishman writes that Lohan, who is no stranger to a jail cell or five-fingered jewelry discounts, didn’t even know she had been dumped from the movie until after director Barry Levinson told a Cannes festival crowd he wanted to make cast changes. “I’d love to have Lindsay in my movie,” Fiore said. “Is there anything you can do?” she asked. The struggling rehab actress was slated to play the Gambino godfather’s long-suffering wife, a role Lohan snagged using the muscle of Junior’s “Growing Up Gotti” sister, Victoria. He “had a poster of the Gotti movie, though Lohan’s name was covered by a pink Post-it,” he writes. Writer Steve Fishman, who has chronicled the latest woes to befall the sputtering production, recalls taking notice of the Lohan diss during a visit with producer Marc Fiore at his Manalapan, NJ, office. It’s another bit of comedic drama in the Hollywood gang war that has sent some of the key behind-the-scenes players to the mattresses in the making of John Gotti Jr.’s troubled biopic about his Mafia-kingpin dad.
It’s not a good sign when a Post-it is covering over her name on the movie poster for “Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father” that hangs in the producer’s office, according to this week’s issue of New York magazine. Lindsay Lohan is on the Gotti hit list - the movie, that is.
once posed with Lindsay Lohan (right) - who later was booted from their mob biopic. FUHGEDDABOUDIT: Victoria Gotti, John Travolta and John Gotti Jr.
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