By Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office Editor Russell Crowe will headline American Son, a mob thriller that was previously set up at Sony, but is now at Paramount.
Based on Jacques Audiard’s French movie A Prophet, American Son will be directed by Andrew “Rapman” Onwubolu with Dennis Lehane writing the screenplay.
Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe are producing through Original Film. Pic follows a man who builds a multiracial crime syndicate after falling under the control of a mobster, played by Crowe.
He takes down his mentor, and earns a spot alongside the Italian and Russian mafias. The original movie, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for a 2010 foreign language film Oscar.
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