Which family should the next mob movie be about?

I ran this poll for the past month on my blog www.fivefamiliesnyc.blogspot.com

Colombos 55 (10%)
Bonannos 53 (9%)
Genovese 88 (16%)
Gambinos 66 (12%)
Lucchese 37 (6%)
Philadelphia 66 (12%)
New England 140 (26%)
Chicago 27 (5%)

Total votes: 532

Over 500 of our readers voted in in our most recent poll and made their intentions known that they would like to see the next mob movie based on the New England mafia, the Patriarca crime family. The Patriarca's have had a storied history especially in recent times. Taken down by FBI informant/murderer Whitey Bulger in the 1980's, followed by a civil war, the reign of Baby Shacks, and the recent defections of Mark Rossetti (apparently another Bulger episode) and the rumored disappearance/defection of Bobby Deluca. This would definitely make very entertaining viewing that's for sure if it ever came to the big screen.

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Nicky Scarfo. Hands down.

The D'Amatos

I have always thought the Philly family under Scarfo would make the best movie.

A movie about Gaspipe or the last Colombo war would be awesome.

Philly family would be nice, New England would be cool also. But a movie about the Colombo wars would be the best, or the Boston wars.

None other than the Rizzutos.

I got two ideas that would make a good film.
1. The mobs involvement in the sex industry during the 70s and 80s. Could possibly focus on time square at the time. Could have characters based on the perainos who financed deep throat.Apparently they ended up getting shot which would be a good ending for a film. Probably not be the most flattering portrayal of the mafia still an interesting story.

2.Do one on the philadelphia underworld in which the story of both the italian and black mafia intertwine as their were certain instances where both groups had members working together but also so sort of came apart at the same time.

Number one for me would be a movie about Gaspipe. That would be an extremely suspenseful movie without the "hollywood dramatazation".

A close secound maybe even 1A would be a film about the Colombo wars. I think Greg Scarpa would make for a hell of a character.

Third I would like to see something made about the philly family, Scarfo or Stanfa regime.

A movie on the philly guys starting with the Bruno hit would be great. Plenty of violence and intrigue for an action packed 2 hour movie. Those guys literally wiped out half the family and the feds took care of the other half. Not much left until Ligambi started putting things back together.


IMO a movie on the Colombo war would be my second choice. And a movie on Gaspipe wouldn't be too bad either. That guy was crazier then scarfo and smarter too. Gas made a shitload of money in his day. Can you imagine if scarfo had cops on his payroll doing hits like gaspipe did.

either of these

Love the suggestions..here are my top three: 1) Colombo War and Joey Gallo; 2) Philly family; 3) gaspipe

This family.

They can't do the Rizzuto movie yet, they don't know how it ends!

Burton "Downtown Burt" Kaplan, he was involved in the "life" for decades, and involved in all types of shit. He was with Christy Tick and Gaspipe, dealt with the "mafia cops",etc. He dealt with the hasidic Jews, mobsters, African dictators, and one of the first to deal with the Chinese when they opened up their economy to the West.

^^that would be an interesting movie

I'd like to see a movie about the burgalry at the Accardo's. The whole story has everything.

Very often, when a book is turned into a movie, the result turns out not that good. The producers are always struggling with squeezing a life story into an one and a half, two hour movie. How are they supposed to do that successfully? That is why people often say "oh, the book was so much better than the movie", because the book is always richer with info and events.
As good as, for example, the Donnie Brasco movie is, the book (at least the 1986 edition) is so much better. There is a lot of good stuff in the book, that was never described in the movie.

Another thing that is quite irritating (at least to me) is when the same actor appears as the same character throughout the movie, even if the character has aged 40, 50 years.
So easy to see all that make up and not many 20 year old actors can act the character of a 70 year old. And vice versa!

No question Scarfo from Bruno's murder on ,The story line writes it self ,will need no bull thrown in.The movie would be on the edge of you seat all the way through..

And Scarfo did have cops,All the way to the top...

Didn't they have the mayor of Atlantic City in their pocket?

Moe : Yes , He was a local guy from Linwood, but he had family that lived in the city ,there for his children were around here all of the summers.

The oldest son worked for the city, he was was in the body shop.
The mayor also had the same ties to ducktown and the chelsea section of the city.
I can not remember if he grew up in the city or if he just had aunts and uncles here.

The Accardo burglary is one of the least interesting topics for an Outfit movie.

Montreal.

Rizzutos.

End of story.

There's certainly no lack of stories, but a lack of decent actors to play the parts.

If I could get one pic made it would be Murder Machine with special effects by Tom Savini.

Another film I'd like to see is a decent bi-op on Accardo.

As for a Scarfo/Philly Mob pic, who'd be good as Scarfo?

the only 2 guys i can think of are frankie valli or joe pesci, i can't thnk of anyone else small enough fort the part.

What about Leonetti?

lol i agree, its funny because thats the only outfit movie that they're even considering making, i believe Deniro to play accardo, is that right?

maybe he could play himself? haha

Leonetti would be a great narrator.

Maybe they could get Danny DeVito to play Harry the Hunchback?

I think a great story is that of the Bonanno's rise and fall with Joe Bananas and their rise and fall with Joe Massino....even though Massino turned out to be a huge hypocrite and rat, the fundamental changes that he instilled in family structure will ultimately help the families in the long run.

Looks like they're at least trying to make Depp look like Bulger.

Depp can be fine when he isn't prancing around in make up and hair extensions trying to channel Keith Richards.

Rizzutos.

Depp is a fucking clown.

@Della that's right, I had completely forgotten about that. What a pathetic choice for a film.

The only reason people want to see movies about Tony Accardo is because of those ridiculous Bill Roemer books, in which he paints Accardo out to be some type of Mafia Superhero who could fly & walk on water.

Regarding Chicago, I'd like to see a film about the Jeep Daddino hit that never took place, and that led to Mario Rainone flipping & pretty much sending the entire Outfit Brass off to the can in the early 90s.

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I Think Joey Merlino Hands down When Scarfo Sr. going to jail. To Joey Muscling into Scarfo Street tax and excedera to the Alledge Nicky Jr attempted Murder to The Merlino Stanfa wars so on till 99 Make a good Movie.. ther then that Sam Giancana or Gas pipe for sure.. Scarfo too.

I think a movie about Scarpa and whole 3rd Columbo war would be great. Maybe they could do something spanning a time-frame in an epic, going from Gallo on up to the 3rd war.

Hopefully they could tell the truth about DeVecchio without him suing (though the standard of evidence is looser in civil court, it would certainly be a bad move for him to get all of his dirty laundry exposed through a "truth defense" that a libel case requires)

A movie about Nicky Scarfo would be interesting to watch! And have the actor from American Hustler play him, Jeremy Remer who played the Mayor.

If they made a movie about scarfo

Pecsi plays scarfo
Nick turturro plays leonetti
Q from impractical jokers plays sal testa

Phil Testa can be played by either Pizza face Robert Davi or F Murray Abraham

Frankie Valli would OWN the Scarfo role.

A Rizzuto movie would be pretty cool, but, it's probably too soon. I'd (unfortunately) give it another 10-15 years. Too many people who would need to be portrayed are still embroiled in the life and probably ongoing investigations in Montreal. I suppose you could do a movie more about Nick than Vito but even then there's a ton of overlap, it'd be hard to do. Not to mention such a movie would be inviting fair comparisons to The Godfather -- having a multi-generational mob flick wherein leadership is passed through hereditary succession -- in any case, good luck selling a movie set in Canada to American and European audiences. Nobody who isn't already a mob enthusiast cares much about a mafia faction in Quebec.

Besides, there's still a lot of untouched history from New York. Although, personally, I would love to see a movie based in Italy during Toto Riina's reign.

Yeah plenty of stories, but not enough actors! i always thought pacino would be perfect as scarfo - or pesci. but both are too old now.... Always wanted to see de niro as johnny roselli - he really has an interesting story.

A more likely one would be michael imperioli as joey merlino. I would pay good money to see that.

Def a Philly movie
Caponigro- Burt young
Phil testa. F Murray Abraham
Scarfo- Frankie valli
Harry riccobene. Danny devito
Chuckie merlino- pesci
Salvie- Richard Greco
Joey- imperioli

chicago

the chop shop wars 70s-80s

I'm thinking Imperioli is too fugly to play merlino

A well done story of Giuseppe Morello and the beginnings of the Mafia in the states sounds like a good one. Either that or the Nicky scarfo one.

Rizzuto or the pizza connection.

I was thinking of the bonnanos too, but mostly focused on Massino:

One of the NY mafia families is kicked off the commission and left for dead because they were infiltrated by a federal agent and their family is largely made up of drug dealers. One capo (Massino) takes control of the family, takes them underground, changes all the rules and brings them to the top of the country's crime hierarchy. And he does all this, just to later get caught and become a rat.

I'd rather have a good actor play the role of a mobster than just pick a guy that looks the part (Frankie Vallie as being a good example of what I'm talking about).

Valli played a mobster in several seasons of the sopranos. So it's not as if he doesn't have the pedigree...

The Decavalcantes. Would be good and there are some intersting family members and history there!

Rainone was arrested with rudy frattos relative , why have they not whacked this guy for the trouble he caused ??

Martin landau- Angelo Bruno
Frank Vincent- nick the blade
Steven bauer- chick ciancaglini
Ben affleck- leonetti?
It would have to be a bio epic. Needs way more than 2 hours
To cover 77-88

Or Phil Leonetti as Frank Vincent!

Colombo's easily for me. Specifically, Scarpa. I guess they are doing the movie on him now. I just hope its one of those 3 hour long mobster movies, where they cover alot of ground and don't leave any important parts out.

It would be interesting for the movie to deliver in a deal with the devil type style. Where you see Scarpa talking to the feds and the stories he would tell, then it pans out and you see what really happened. Kinda like they did with Tony when he was in his therapy sessions.

Just cover everything in 3-3 1/2 hours. Could be phenomenal if they do it right. First they need to let Stallone go.

Hilarious. Leonetti as Vincent

I'd like to see an original mob film that isn't based on a true story (Can be inspired by real events) and is set in the present day.

Frank Valli is 80 years old and has about twenty minutes of uninspiring performances playing off little carmines ridiculous comments. You want him to star in a movie? I get that they have a resemblance but I just don't see it.

There has to be a thousand good stories out there. I would like to see a well made movie about Roy DeMeo and Gaspipe Casso. Even a good well made movie about Gotti other than this TV stuff which has been over done about him and his crew. Vinnie Gorgeous would be good but maybe a little short

There has to be a thousand good stories out there. I would like to see a well made movie about Roy DeMeo and Gaspipe Casso. Even a good well made movie about Gotti other than this TV stuff which has been over done about him and his crew. Vinnie Gorgeous would be good but maybe a little short

LOL! Not sure what he was trying to accomplish with that mop on his head.

A movie about the whole Phily/Scarfo era isn't enough, that deserves a whole tv series on HBO.

How many episodes can you really watch of a homicidal dwarf ordering hits on his friends and family with little to no nudity. The only nudity being shirtless grease balls on the 'Usual Suspects' yacht.

Reminds me of those Leprechaun movies... Leprechaun in South Philly .

Don't forget about his war against Santa Claus, Scarfo almost left all the children in the world without Christmas presents by whacking the one who delivers them. On the other hand, Santa died in prison in 2000 while serving time for Frank Monte's murder anyway, so unless an acting Santa Claus was appointed, the fairy tale has ended anyway.

I'd be most interested in a movie on Chin Gigante, but the fact that they can't even write a book about one of the most colorful mob guys in the last 50 years goes to show what a successful and intelligent gangster he really was...Because he would certainly sell !!!