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Release Date :
TBA 2010
Weinstein Co. Goes "Mad"
July 17, 2007 02:07:36Conducting one of its first attempts at book-film synergy, The Weinstein Co. is on its track to develop "The Mad Ones" based on an as-yet-unwritten tome from author Tom Folsom of which film and TV rights it has successfully optioned.
The book, slated for a 2009 release, is said to tell about the notorious Gallo brothers, who, in the 1960s, attempted a revolt against the Profaci crime family of which they were a part. Weinstein Co. has described the project, which also examines the downtown counterculture in which the brothers dabbled, to be a "collision of a classic crime story and pop culture portrait of the turbulent '60s."
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