May 22nd, 2014 / 3 Comments


For those who might have missed this news yesterday, Rob pretty much confirmed that his new movie with Assayas’ is in fact “Hubris” which is now called Idol’s Eye.  A gangster drama you say *twirls*.

 

Thanks Clara for the tip.

Updated: From The Playlist:

It has already been a busy 2014 for Robert Pattinson, and he’s not slowing down any time soon. The actor will be leaving the Cannes Film Festival feeling pretty good, receiving good notices both “The Rover” and “Maps To The Stars”. And not only does he have promising projects in the can and still to come — Werner Herzog’s “Queen Of The Desert” and Anton Corbijn’s “Life” — on the horizon, he has James Gray’s “The Lost City Of Z” and a possible project with Harmony Korine. And now you can add a movie with Olivier Assayas to the list.

Last week, the filmmaker revealed he had Pattinson lined up to star in his next film, and this week, the actor confirms his involvement in an interview with La Nouvel Observateur. Pattinson says he’ll be shooting the film in November, and shares that it’s about a group of men who rob a porn store only to find out it’s actually a mafia front. And from that description, it sounds a lot like “Hubris,” the project Assayas lined up last year. In fact we’d wager it’s the same one, but it seems there’s been a title change.

Le Monde (via Looking For More) reports that the film is titled “Idol’s Eye” and it will have a budget of $30 million. And we already know that the film is based on a 2007 Playboy article called “Boosting The Big Tuna” by Hillel Levin and is inspired by actual events, in which a bunch of regular criminals accidentally robbed Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo.

Very promising stuff, and hopefully more details about this one arrive soon, and they likely will, with cameras slated to roll in less than six months.

According to Rope of Silicon “The story will center on a group of men who rob a porn store only to find out it’s actually a mafia front.”

Updated again:

Here’s an article “Boosting the Big Tuna” for some background mentioned above by The Playlist.

Updated again:

Didn’t Rob have a meeting with Universal we were all curious about?  This doesn’t mention Assayas, but it does mention the actual film”Hubris” which is what the film is listed as on Assyas’ IMDbPro In Developments.  From The Playlist’s article back in January 2011:

In spring of last year, Deadline reported that Field had set up another project at Universal that he would direct called “Hubris,” written by Bobby Moresco (who co-wrote “Crash” with Paul Haggis, but favors gangster material such as “One Eyed King,” “10th & Wolf” and “The Black Donnellys“), but zero details were given. We asked around after the “Blood Meridian” news piqued our interest, and we’ve received some details from Universal, plus done a bit of our own digging, uncovering what sounds like a truly intriguing project.

“Hubris” is a true-crime gangster revenge film based on a 2007 Playboy article titled “Boosting the Big Tuna” by investigative reporter Hillel Levin and based on the FBI-led “Operation Family Secrets” trial, which covered the murders of the men who burglarized Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo‘s (known as “Big Tuna”) River Forest house in the late ’70s. While Accardo was away on vacation in California in 1978, prowlers brazenly broke into his River Forest home. Within a month, five of the suspected thieves were found brutally murdered and in some cases, excessively tortured. To cover their tracks, even more killings took place — eventually even the caretaker of the home disappeared when Chi-town police had enough evidence to bring it before a grand jury in 1978. Over the years, a chain of events led to 18 ruthless murders angled at silencing witnesses and handing out swift mob vengeance (one victim was even Tony Spilotro, the Chicago mob’s Vegas enforcer and the basis for Joe Pesci‘s character in Martin Scorsese‘s “Casino“). Prosecutors believed Accardo was furious that someone had dared to violate his home and ordered the killings. No charges could ever be brought down.

Why five thugs were stupid enough to break into a godfather’s palatial mansion is where the story gets good. At the epicenter is John Mendell — one of the five burglars and one of “Chicago’s top wire men” capable of tricking the most sophisticated alarm systems. A month before the “Big Tuna” break-in, he had orchestrated a million-dollar jewel heist — one of the biggest Chicago scores of the ’70s. But jeweler magnate Harry Levinson was also friends with the mob boss Accardo, who in turn stressed the thieves’ lower-rung on the mob food-chain and then informed them he was taking their loot, and handing it over to his fences. Bitter and angry, they decided to steal back their own score as a type of “fuck you” to the mob. Of course, they ended up dead shortly thereafter. But the chain of events led two FBI officers, Bob Pecoraro and Zack Shelton, to come pretty damn close to nailing Accardo, including gathering enough evidence to impanel a grand jury in the fall of 1978.

The entire story — at least from Levin’s Playboy article — sounds like a cross between “Goodfellas” and “Zodiac” and we could easily see both stories of the cops and robbers being told in parallel.

You can read the entire article at the source

  • Michelle
    Posted on May 22, 2014

    SO exciting, cannot wait. How spoilt are we 😀

  • Sare
    Posted on May 22, 2014

    Sounds awesome! I’m picking Rob as one of burglars. As much as I’d love gangsta Rob, I can’t picture it lol!

  • Carmel
    Posted on May 22, 2014

    Gangster Rob. Shivers. I gotta see that

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