Johnny is back at his best with the characterization of Bulger

Johnny Depp’s role as Bulger a success and a triumph at the world premiere during the Venice Film Festival

Johnny Depp’s

Whitey Bulger received a common general positive answer from everyone and a “Mamma mia, what a joy, Johnny is back!” from all the press, italian and international enthusiastic for Black Mass presented yesterday sept 4th at the world premiere during the 72 nd Venice Film Festival.

Variety the first blog posting the review of the film.
The blog thinks Black Mass is a “sober, sprawling, deeply engrossing evocation of Bulger’s South Boston” and “Depp is fully restored here”.

The Hollywood Reporter: “Convincing and frightening”, “After too many Caribbean vacations, Johnny Depp finally gets back down to some serious business in Black Mass”, and “He’s as charismatic as his character must be” adding: “Depp’s instinct for observing, underlaying and keeping things in, then letting it all out when required, pays big dividends here”. THR is sure of it: “It’s unexpected, very welcome and one of his best movies”.

For the Guardian Black Mass is a “Compelling true drama and a mighty come back for Johnny Depp”.

Johnny Depp during the press conference of yesterday morning, after his arrival at the Laguna with an irish-green jacket said to the press: “I’ve always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy they tried to make me into 100 years ago”.
Talking of Whitey Bulger Depp confessed he requested to meet Bulger but the mobster said Johnny: “Respectfully declined”. Bulger’s attorney J.W. Carney Jr.visited the set. “He could feel his old friend in what I was doing” added Johnny, satisfied.

Black Mass is a Warner Bros. release presented in association with Cross Creek Pictures and RatPac-Dune Entertainment of a Cross Creek Pictures production in association with Le Grisbi Prods, Free State Pictures, Head Gear Films.

Produced by John Lesher, Brian Oliver, Scott Cooper, Patrick McCormick, Tyler Thompson.

Executive producers: Brett Ratner, James Packer, Steven Mnuchin, Peter Mallouk, Ray Mallouk, Christopher Woodrow, Brett Granstaff, Gary Granstaff, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross.

Co-executive producers: Adam Kassan, Chuck Rock, Michael Bassick.

Directed by Scott Cooper.

Screenplay: Mark Mallouk, Jez Butterworth.

The movie is based on the book written by the two former journalists of the Boston Globe Dick Lehr, Gerard O’Neill.

Music: Tom Holkenborg.

Production designer: Stefania Cella.

Art director: Jeremy Woodward.

Set decorator: Tracey Doyle.

Set designers: Bryan Felty, Karl Martin, Christina Todesco.

Costume designer: Kasia Walicka Maimone.

Sound: Tom Williams.

Visual effects: Zero FX, Crafty Apes, Lola VFX.

Stunt coordinators: Chuck Jeffreys, G.A. Aguilar.

Associate producer: Richard Mirisch.

Assistant director: Michele Ziegler.

Casting, Francine Maisler.

The movie cast

Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, David Harbour, Adam Scott, Corey Stoll, Julianne Nicholson, W. Earl Brown, Bill Camp, Juno Temple, Mark Mahoney, Brad Carter, Scott Anderson, Lonnie Farmer, Mary Klug, Erica McDermott, Luke Ryan.

Anna Maria Polidori

Black Mass and the tv spots

New three tv spots for the new coming soon movie by Scott Cooper with Johnny Depp in the role of Whitey Bulger

The movie Black Mass based on the book Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a devil’s deal written by the two former journalists of the Boston Globe Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill will be in theaters soon, sept 18th.

Johnny Depp in the role of James “Whitey” Bulger. “Whitey” has been one of the most wanted american mobsters of all the times. The gangster is from South Boston. Still alive he is 85 years and he is convicted in a prison in Florida.

Waiting for the arrival of the movie, Warner Bros Pictures has released three TV spots.

The story of Black Mass: the life of Bulger scrutinized in particular when the mobster was in his 50s and his illegal activities particularly active.

Bulger was a close friend of John Connolly a special agent of the FBI. They were born in the same neighborhood. That’s why Bulger called Connolly with the nickname ZIP.
Connolly convinced the mobster: Jimmy Bulger would have become an informant of the FBI. An old knowledge of the FBI was also Rifleman Flemmi, since 1965 a collaborant of the federal Boston agency.

This role has been strategic for Bulger presenting him a constant protection. (Bulger has always denied any kind of collaboration with the FBI, just, he admitted, a close friendship with Connolly).
Thanks to his collaboration the italian mafia of North Boston created in the while by the family of Jerry Angiulo,defeated, but what happened later has been incredibly sad. An escalation of death and murders. In some cases people were killed just because they were in the wrong place and with the wrong person for a sad coincidence as it happened for Donahue.

Whitey left Boston in 1995. Someone called him: the air of Boston was becoming heavy for Bulger.

Bulger knew that song and he left the city forever.
He was found in sunny Santa Monica on late june 2011.
The trial, two life sentences and five years.

The movie is directed by Scott Cooper and apart

Johnny in the role of Whitey Bulger, we will also find:

Joel Edgerton as FBI special agent John Connolly .

Benedict Cumberbatch as Whitey Bulger’s brother Billy Bulger.

Rory Cochrane as Flemmi “Rifleman” one of the most close affiliates of Bulger.

Jesse Plemons as Kevin Weeks, another man close to Bulger.

Kevin Bacon in the role of the FBI agent Charles McGuire.

Adam Scott will be the FBI Agent Robert Fitzpatrick

The girls in the movie have a big role. Whitey Bulger lived various relationships of a great importance.

The one taken in consideration and reconstructed in Black Mass will be the love-story with Lindsey Cyr, Dakota Johnson in the role. With Lindsey Cyr Whitey has experienced the beauty of being dad. A devastation the departure at just 6 years of his only son Douglas Cyr.

Juno Temple will be Deborah Hussey, later killed by the people of the Winter Hill gang. Flemmi Rifleman accused in 1985 Bulger of the murder of the girl – he also participated at the murder, he admitted, and later the girl was buried in a basement – but Whitey has always denied it. He has always said he hasn’t killed the girl.

Julianne Nicholson in the role of Marianne, John Connolly’s wife.

In the cast also David Harbour, Brad Carter, W Earl Brown, Corey Stoll.

The movie has been written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth. The movie is produced by John Lesher, Brian Oliver, Scott Cooper, Patrick McCormick and Tyler Thompson.

Executive producers: Brett Ratner, James Packer, Peter Mallouk, Ray Mallouk, Christopher Woodrow, Brett Granstaff, Gary Granstaff, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross.

Black Mass will see the light at the Venice Film Festival out of competition on sept 4th.

Anna Maria Polidori

CinemaCon enthusiastic of Black Mass!

Black Mass and Johnny’s interpretation of James Whitey Bulger much appreciated at CinemaCon

 

There is great expectation from a city, Boston, and from all of us, about the new movie regarding the criminal and private life of the most infamous american mobster, James/Jimmy Whitey Bulger.

 

A real strong character, this mobster terrorized the South Boston’s are, called familiarly from the citizens of Boston, Southie, during the decades of ’70s and ’80s.
Introduced by director Scott Cooper at CinemaCon last Tuesday, the movie clips conquered everyone with positive reactions

Johnny Depp is at the same time and another time, unrecognizable .

It couldn’t be different. Whitey Bulger was extremely blonde and has blue eyes. Transformation has been total and radical on the actor as well.

Scott Copper said during the press conference that this one will be “A performance for the ages”.

The clips Variety revealed were launched were these ones. In a scene Whitey Bulger was in company during dinner-time with David Harbour, in the role of FBI supervisor John Harris.

In another scene the first meeting with Catherine Greig, one of Bulger’s most important women of his life and the one, when Teresa Stanley decided to giving up to follow Whitey Bulger on the run, who would have taken, with great joy, Teresa’s place.

At first Greig worked as dental hygienist and if she wouldn’t have met Whitey Bulger maybe her destiny would have been drastically different. She was an ambitious girl.

Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of William Bill Bulger, one of James Bulger’s brothers. Bill Bulger became with the time an important political exponent of the democratic party.

Explored the connection between F.B.I. with Joel Edgerton in the role of agent John Connolly. The same Connolly received a sentence of 40 years of prison although he is still saying he is innocent.
Jesse Plemons will be Kevin Weeks, one of the men will help Whitey Bulger to run away from Boston and later would have helped him to replace Teresa Stanley with Catherine Greig.
While Whitey was still on the run he would have written a book of memories called “Brutal” about his years with Whitey Bulger.

Sienna Miller in the role of girlfriend Catherine Grieg.

Dakota Johnson will be Lindsey Cyr. Whitey Bulger had had only a child and it happened with Lindsey Cyr although the news has been known just in recent years and always kept secret. Bulger didn’t want any children for I guess, avoiding any bigger problems. His “work” in fact, couldn’t permit him to create a common family for the fear something would have happened to his children as well.

Anyway destiny has wanted that he met, before to start the relationship with Catherine Greig, Teresa Stanley. Teresa had had four children from a previous relationship and Whitey’s reaction was: “Great! It’s fine to me!” and he grew up as if he would have been their dad all these children.

Not only but he didn’t introduce any of them to the criminality. All the opposite. He said them of being good people. He was the one who met for first, for trying to understand if that guy was a good person, the boyfriend future husband of Teresa Stanley’s daughter. He was their dad although he didn’t love to be called dad.

Lindsey Cyr loved Whitey profoundly and she wanted to have this baby so badly. Unfortunately the toddler died at the age of six years because of an allergy caused by an aspirin.

Bulger suffered a lot for the departure of his son.

In the cast also Rory Cochrane, Julianne Nicholson, Adam Scott, Jeremy Strong, Brad Carter, W. Earl Brown and Corey Stoll.

Black Mass is a movie inspired by the book written by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill: Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the F.B.I. and a Devil’s Deal”. The two former journalists of The Boston Globe, investigative reporters decided to write down this story, and later a Whitey Bulger’s biography as well as told by Lehr in an interview at the Washington Post: “We wanted to put the “Black Mass” years in a larger context of Bulger’s life story, a biography, in which we try to not just tell this dramatic and horrific story, but get more into the why and how in the making of this monster”.

The movie has been co-financed by Warner Bros. with Cross Creek. Mark Mallouk is the screenwriter.

Whitey Bulger has been captured june 22 in Santa Monica. California, thanks to an information received from an ex Miss Iceland back in Iceland. She lived for a while in the same place where lived family Gasko feeding poor abandoned cats with Catherine Greig. While Anna Bjornsdottir, the model, was watching on tv international CNN, she understood that the family Gasko, and in particular Charlie wasn’t a tranquil man spending his pension in a luxury place of the world, but that he was the terrible irish Bostonian mobster Whitey Bulger.

The emphasis on Whitey Bulger grew up thanks to the capture of Osama bin Laden at the top ten list of the F.B.I. Later, the first one to be spasmodically researched and wanted with a reward of 2 million of dollars was Whitey Bulger. Whitey started to live moment of sad depression and desperation thinking that, maybe some of his neighbors, with which after a first moment of skepticism had started to be friend, enjoying their company with, would have revealed all. He stayed close 24 hours per day in the house. Neighbors were worried. “What happened to Charlie?” they asked to a worried girlfriend. After the capture the first thought once in jail was for them when he sent to all of them letters telling: “I am not the person they say I am”.

 

 

For sure as also remarked from a retired police man, when James Whitey Bulger left Boston he lived a tranquil life off crime, and maybe in his thoughts, the idea of dying as a normal man became strong with the time. A second life: a man without great sins, a helper for his neighbors, the best consolation after a life spent killing and putting pain in South Boston.

Once captured and put in jail he received two life sentences.

 

 

Anna Maria Polidori

Adam Scott joins Black Mass and Warner Bros confirms the cast

New arrival on the set of Black Mass Warner Bros confirms all the cast

Hollywood Reporter reported recently (may 21st) and it was an exclusive, Adam Scott had joined the cast of Black Mass in the role of the FBI agent Robert Fitzpatrick.

 

Johnny Depp

plays the main role: the one of Whitey Bulger the Irish mafioso terrorized the entire area of South Boston, Massachusetts, during the ’70s and ’80s.

 

Years still remembered by the oldest people of the area as a period of real terror for everyone.

Thanks to Lory Depp Girl

Thanks to Lory Depp Girl for the collage

Whitey Bulger had established in fact strong connections and a great criminal web with a lot of people including some powerful members of the FBI.

 

The real Whitey Bulger

Bulger is in prison now for the rest of his life because of the numerous crimes committed.

Scott Cooper is the director of Black Mass. Warner Bros/Cross Creek production.

The director in the pic with Johnny/Whitey. Thanks to Lory Depp Girl for the pic

Other cast members: Joel Edgerton as John Connolly the agent of FBI it seems in great and good connection with Bulger.

 

Benedict Cumberbatch as wrote days ago is replacing Guy Pearce Pearce’s busy schedule won’t permit in fact to him to performing the role of Bill Bulger, Whitey’s brother.

Billy Bulger and close to him Whitey

William Michael (but everybody call him Billy) Bulger has spent a very good existence. He has been always a democrat and for many years he was an active political man, a lawyer and educator.  For many years he has been president of the Massachusetts Senate and president of the University of Massachusetts.

 

 

Warner Bros  has recently released a statement that confirm the cast.

Sienna Miller will play the role of Catherine Greig.

Dakota Johnson the one of Whitey’s ex Lindsey Cyr.

Julianne Nicholson will be John Connolly’s wife (F.B.I. agent)

Rory Cochrane will be Steve Flemmi another partner of Whitey Bulger in the mafia business.

Jesse Plemons will be Kevin Weeks.

Corey Stoll , Brad Carter and Jeremy Strong    are involved, Warner Bros confirmed, in the project.

The movie doesn’t have yet, it is specified by Warner Bros a real title although for praticity I will call it Black Mass for my readers because the movie is based on a book called: “Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob,” written by the Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill.

 

Anna Maria Polidori