Warner Bros. Heads for Tokyo Underworld

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=47742

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
August 7, 2008


Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Robert Whiting's "Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan" and has hired Frank Baldwin to adapt the true-life crime novel.

The Hollywood Reporter says Dan Lin is producing via his Warners-based Lin Pictures along with veteran producers Harry and Mary Jane Ufland.

Published in 2000, the book centers on Nick Zappetti, an Italian-American from East Harlem who was part of the U.S. occupation forces sent to Japan after World War II. Believing that Tokyo offered certain opportunities, Zappetti had a failed stint as a wrestler, participated in a fumbled diamond heist and was deported. But he returned illegally and opened a pizza joint, which in the mid-'60s became the center of Tokyo's nightlife, and for the next 15 years, he became an integral part in the yakuza's rise to power.

This sounds awesome, has anyone read the book ?

 

[Gotham]

That sounds like an extremely cool story. I may have to start looking for the novel.

 

[Hunter Rider]

That sounds like an extremely cool story. I may have to start looking for the novel.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tokyo-Under...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218122248&sr=1-1