Here's a trailer for Kill the Irishman, Jonathan Hensleigh's gangster epic starring Ray Stevenson in a series of frightwigs and unflattering tracksuits. There aren't any shamrocks, there are some shenanigans, and there's a lot of boom shalock lock boom.
It's the "true" story of Irish-American Danny Greene, who rose from nothing on the streets of Cleveland, Ohio to become a feared Mafia enforcer, and provoked a certain degree of internal mob controversy when he decided to abandon the Italians and go freelance. He survived a ridiculous number of assassination attempts, earning himself the moniker of "the man the mob couldn't kill". And he always retaliated, steady bustin' suckers in bunches like grapes. Or something.
Jonathan Hensleigh's film has "70s throwback" written all over it, but it looks like fun, and he's assembled an impressive cast who seem to be having a good time. Alongside Stevenson we've got Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer, and Christopher Walken, with Vinnie Jones, Paul Sorvino and Robert Davi also in there somewhere. Hensleigh wrote the screenplay with Jeremy Walters, based on Rick Porrello's book To Kill an Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia.
Jonathan Hensleigh directed The Punisher. Ray Stevenson played Frank Castle in Punisher: War Zone. It's a match made in... Cleveland. No release date yet.