I agree with both of you. I think Martin Scorsese would have been able to really do justice to the book.
That would have been something TB.
If you remember, DONNIE BRASCO was initially set to go into production in 1989, with Tom Cruise in the title role. It was then put on the back burner, so it wouldn't be in direct competition with THE GODFATHER PART III and GOODFELLAS, both released in late 1990.
All of that being said, it was still an entertaining movie. Thank God they came to their senses and re-cast Johnny Depp as "Donnie". I don't think Cruise could have pulled it off, whereas, script deficiencies aside, Depp did a fine job.
