Deadline is reporting that Benicio Del Toro has signed on to play Jack Garcia (pictured right) in Making Jack Falcone. Del Toro will reunite with Che director Steven Soderbergh and writer Peter Buchman for the film that follows the Cuban-born agent as he pretends to be Italian and take down 39 members of New York’s Gambino Crime family. Buchman has written the script while Soderbergh will strictly produce. No director has been attached yet. Deadline has a good look at the chameleon efforts Del Toro will have to accomplish below.
While undercover cop movies like Donnie Brasco bared the dilemma of conflicted loyalties of undercover work, Garcia’s biggest dilemma was keeping his cover straight. He would go from the New York case to Miami, where he posed as a New York capo in a sting against crooked cops, to Atlantic City, where he pretended to be a drug dealer in another case.
While The Wolfman was a big failure, especially Del Toro’s performance, almost all his other work has proven otherwise. I’m down for Del Toro to get back into the crime genre, especially with a script by Buchman. I hope they can find a solid director for this project.
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