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Genius comedian/filmmaker Albert Brooks, whose big-screen métier has been trafficking in frustrated nebbishes, will play badass New York mobster Bernie Rose in “Drive,” based on the 2004 James Sallis novel about a Los Angeles getaway driver.
Impossible? Remember how great Bill Murray was as the mob boss in “Mad Dog and Glory”?
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (“Bronson”) from a screenplay by Hossein Amini (“Killshot”), “Drive” stars also Ryan Gosling (“Lars and the Real Girl”), Carey Mulligan (“An Education,” “Wall Street II”) and Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”).
Find all of the Deadline’s story on the matter, which also indicates Brooks has written a sci-fi novel due next year, here.
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