Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables has quite a behind the scenes story to it. Plus: there was an unmade prequel called Capone Rising too. Brian De Palma’s soaring 1987 crime drama The Untouchables nearly went in some very different directions. Jack Nicholson as Eliot Ness? Bob Hoskins as Al Capone? And what’s more, the film’s ... Podcast | The Untouchables (1987), plus the prequel that never was
Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables has quite a behind the scenes story to it. Plus: there was an unmade prequel called Capone Rising too.
Brian De Palma’s soaring 1987 crime drama The Untouchables nearly went in some very different directions. Jack Nicholson as Eliot Ness? Bob Hoskins as Al Capone? And what’s more, the film’s legendary sequence on the steps of Chicago’s Union Station was pretty much made up on the fly.
The story is told in this episode, as well as the brief attempt to get a prequel movie – Capone Rising – off the ground as well.
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