According toDeadline, Pitt will play Jackie Cogan, a professional enforcer investigating a stick-up at a high-stakes poker game run by the mob. Rockwell’s role is undetermined at this point, but he’s committed to the ensemble cast. TheirJesse Jamesco-star Casey Affleck may also join the film.
Others rumored in the mix are Josh Brolin, Bill Murray, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo, and Zoe Saldana. Even a select few of those additions would make this one of the more interesting casts in recent memory, though Ruffalo may be out due to scheduling issues with playing the Hulk inThe Avengers. Filming is expected to start shooting in March around New Orleans.
We don’t have many details on the movie’s plot yet, but here is the Amazon description of Higgins’ novel:
Cogan’s Trade is the top-notch crime novel rated by the New Yorker as the“best” from“the Balzac of the Boston underworld.” Crackling dialogue, mordant humor, and unremitting tension drive the suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston’s precarious underworld of small-time mobsters, crooked lawyers, and political gofers as George V. Higgins, the writer who boiled crime fiction harder, tracks Jackie Cogan’s career in a gangland version of law and order. For Cogan is an enforcer; and when the Mob’s rules get broken, he gets hired to ply his trade—murder. In the gritty, tough-talking pages of Higgins’s 1974 national best-seller, Cogan is called in when a high-stake card game under the protection of the Mob is heisted. Expertly, with a ruthless businessman’s efficiency, a shrewd sense of other people’s weaknesses,and a style as cold as his stare, Cogan moves with reliable precision to restore the status quo as ill-conceived capers and double-dealing shenanigans erupt into high-voltage violence.
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