EXCLUSIVE: One of many greatest pic packages is about to land at Disney, Deadline hears.

That is the pitch for a Martin Scorsese-directed drama that may star Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt. The thumbnail description: Think about Robert De Niro’s Jimmy the Gent character from Goodfellas however as a ruthless Hawaiian crime boss, additionally based mostly on an actual determine, who battled encroaching rivals for management of organized crime on the islands.

Deadline broke the challenge in February. It’s a dear bundle given the native and above-the-line star energy, and quite a few distributors had been bidding. This being a decidedly grownup movie, it suits properly beneath the twentieth Century banner, residence to imminent movies together with Ship Me From Nowhere, the Scott Cooper-directed drama in regards to the existential disaster that led Bruce Springsteen to gap up in a room and generate his seminal Nebraska album. The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White performs The Boss, and Jeremy Robust performs his longtime supervisor Jon Landau.

The pitch, written by Nick Bilton, focuses on a turbulent time on the island paradise when the aspiring mob boss battled parts like triads and U.S. navy to wrest management. It was a bloody battle. The character relies on Wilford “Nappy” Pulawa, who led the biggest organized crime syndicate on the Hawaiian Islands, The Firm, within the Seventies. He dominated by a status for brutality and homicide, terrain Scorsese coated in each Goodfellas and The Departed.

The Firm’s rackets included playing, human trafficking, marijuana trafficking and labor corruption. Ultimately charged with two murders, Pulawa received 15 years for tax evasion in 1973, and he was launched in 1984. In 1975, Nevada barred him for all times from coming into the state’s casinos.

Producers embody Scorsese, Johnson, Blunt, DiCaprio, Bilton, Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette and LBI Leisure’s Rick Yorn and Chris Donnelly. 

I’ll relay extra when it turns into official. It’s a profession alternative for Johnson, and it feels like David Greenbaum has been the driving power right here. He took the reins to be bold, and this certain suits that invoice. This one suits properly beneath the twentieth Century banner beneath Steve Asbell. Keep tuned.