Source: Variety
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=41324
Director Michael Mann has set Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose), Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff and Jason Clarke to join Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in Public Enemies.
Variety says the Depression-era crime drama gets under way in Chicago on March 10 for Universal Pictures.
The Oscar-nominated Cotillard will play Billie Frechette, the lover of the country’s most notorious gangster, John Dillinger (Depp).
Tatum will play outlaw Pretty Boy Floyd, Ribisi will play Alvin Karpis, Dorff is near a deal to play Homer Van Meter, and Clarke will play John “Red” Hamilton. That quartet repped a Dillinger gang that knocked off banks all over the Midwest during the Depression.
Bale plays Melvin Purvis, who was tapped by FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to lead a manhunt that established the FBI as the country’s first federal police force after the G-Men killed Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in 1934.
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Can’t wait. Michael Mann of course was the mastermind behind the 80’s era series, ‘Miami Vice’, it’s more recent reimagining, as well as an under-appreciated version of Hannibal Lecter in a movie called ‘MANHUNTER’ that was released five years before Jonathan Demme’s ‘The Silence of the Lambs’.
Mann is also responsible for one of my all time favorite crime dramas, ‘HEAT’, which featured Al Pacino’s obsessive workaholic LA detective tracking down Robert DeNiro’s lifetime criminal and featured the most bad ass bank robbery scene and shootout ever filmed. Mann knows his stuff when it comes to crime and when I caught the recent DVD rerelease of ‘HEAT’ his commentary provided a glimpse at the incredible amount of detail he paints his characters with.
Dillinger, Purvis, and their legendary showdown are in excellent hands.
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