To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Robert De Niro has done the impossible by going up against himself in the first trailer for the Alto Knights, leaving movie fans seriously divided.
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The Goodfellas icon returned to his roots for the upcoming flick, directed by Barry Levinson, in which he plays dueling roles of two notorious crime bosses, Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, as they battled for control of New York. The 81-year-old was joined in the cast by himself, Debra Messing, Cosmo Jarvis, Kathrine Narducci, and Michael Rispoli, while Wiseguy author Nicholas Pileggi wrote the screenplay.
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In the gripping first-look ahead of the film’s release in March, Frank and Vito are seen having a sit-down, where the former warns that his ex pal is ‘going down a very dangerous road’. ‘And we ain’t been down dangerous roads before? But that’s the risk you take. Me? I take that risk,’ Vito spits back.
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‘Let’s remember something, I put you where you are today. It’s because of me. Mr Good Citizen, you want to be like them? Come on, you ain’t like them. ‘They own this country, they’re bigger gangsters than we ever could be. You can’t have it both ways.
‘You’re either in or you’re out.’. As things explode into violence, those around them fear for what their war could mean for the future of the city. After what feels like months of waiting, the first teaser dropped today, but some weren’t quite convinced by the scenes, branding Robert’s dual role a ‘gimmick’.
