John Travolta takes on the role of infamous Gambino crime family boss John Gotti in the upcoming mafia movie about the life and death of the Dapper Don.
We get the first-hand look at Travolta playing the role in this newly released Gotti movie trailer. The crime biopic was directed by Kevin Connolly and also stars William DeMeo as Sammy Gravano, Kelly Preston as Victoria Gotti, and Leo Rossi as mobster Bobby Boriello. This new John Gotti movie project took some time to put together and hopes are that the finished project will meet viewers expectations. Those behind the movie including John (Junior) Gotti have said this movie tells the true story of the infamous New York Mafia boss.
Here is part of the description from the official storyline “The film will reveal the relationship of a father who lived and died by the mob code and a son who, while brought up to lead a life of crime, chose to leave that world behind and redeem himself and the Gotti name”. There is still no official release date for the film but now that a trailer has been released there should be more information to follow shortly. There certainly seems to still be plenty of interest in the Gotti name and The Life and Death of John Gotti story will definitely get its share of attention once released. We are looking forward to seeing it and also the reviews it will generate and if this is indeed one of the better 2017 mafia movies.
Okay we finally get at least a small look at this movie. Well just from the trailer I am still quite curious to see this one, I find most of Travolta’s stuff okay and I will admit I am interested to see how they tell this story. Gonna be hard for it to be better than the Armand Assante version I think.
Trailer makes it look decent, hopefully it is
I am not quite as skeptical now i will say , hope that doesn’t turn out to just make it more disappointing.
Assante sounded more the part in my opinion. Travolta’s acsent sounds extremely fake to me. It looks almost the same in regard to the timeline. First Gotti movie seemed rushed just barely touched on areas and raced along. Two hours isn’t long enough to cover a roughly 25 year story.
I think Assante just about nailed it although I am intrigued to see how they lay out the story from Junior’s perspective.
I agree on that one. Travolta could have pulled it off when he was young. He was totally convincing in Saturday Night Fever playing a typical young Guido. Welcome Back Cotter was another. I think those were pre-Scientology days though. He’s only gotten weirder since then. It sucks that he is a good actor but its hard to separate The Scientology nonsense from his acting. Its just hard to take any of them seriously when you know they are all wrapped up in some goofy cult. The movie may end up being decent after all though. I just hope The Irishman movie that Scorsese is doing ends up being good. The book was great. Sometimes having too many stars in one movie can over hype it and end up being a disappointment. Trying to stay positive about that one though.
I agree completely with hard to separate him from Scientology crap. Have a feeling the though the other movie will be pretty good. I keep envisioning the movie Heat, loaded with stars and awesome. Just wish they had assembled all them for a different story based on mob. Sheer ham stories seems like total bullshit.
The “official storyline ” says the son left the life and redeemed the Gotti name!? Wtf! Junior disgraced the Gotti name by being a rat! More Hollywood bullshit
yeah i found that part of it well “interesting” as well
When they said it was THE TRUE STORY thatshould’ve told you/us there some crap going on. Especially since They are making Sammy look like THE REAL Bad Guy. It’ll still be a good Movie,whether those in the know know some facts are wrong
Dam, that trailer was actually pretty good, it’s a shame they couldn’t film it actually in NY but I’m sure they will throw some establishing shots of NYC in there somewhere. I have no doubts regarding Travolta’s acting, lets just hope the rest of the cast can hold their weight, film looks great so far.
I agree I think the trailer was good and this may actually be better than many thought it could have been.
I’d like to see a movie about Vic and Gaspipe’s disastrous rein atop the Lucchese family. And movies about The Chin and Carmine Persico as well. Thanks to John Gotti there are people who think that the Gambinos are the only crime family out there.
I think movies about Gigante and Carmine are def long overdue.
Hopefully Travolta stops perving out on all his massage dudes because that coupled with the Scientology just makes it that much harder to see him as Gotti.