Warner Set to Revisit Capone Years in “Cicero”
Warner Bros. has decided to go to “Cicero,” snapping up a screenplay on Al Capone’s origins from longtime film and TV writer Walon Green (”The Wild Bunch”). John Lesher is set to produce with Adam Kassan executive producing through their company Le Grisbi Prods. Leonard Ackerman, a producer on Warner Bros.’ 1959 film “Al Capone,” is attached to exec produce. “Cicero” details Capone’s rise from the slums of Brooklyn to the head of the criminal underworld in Chicago during Prohibition, when his gang operated casinos and speakeasies throughout the city. In order to operate outside Chicago city limits, the gangster set up headquarters in suburban Cicero, Ill., where he famously took over the city government in 1924. The script’s described as a throwback to the shoot-’em-up gangster films that Warner released during the 1930s.
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