De Niro saw the play and decided to help Palminteri out. Palminteri's play garnered enough buzz that studios offered anywhere from $250,000 to $1 million to purchase the story rights, but they didn’t want Palminteri to act in it, as he wasn’t a big enough name. PALMINTERI WOULD ONLY SELL THE FILM RIGHTS IF HE COULD PLAY SONNY. “About 10 months or a year later, I had a 90-minute one-man show.” 2. “I really honed it and sharpened it,” he said. “I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part-and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously-then I’d write one myself.” He wrote the play in increments-every week he wrote more and performed the material at Los Angeles's Theatre West. Palminteri went home and considered his options. I said, ‘Sure sure, everyone tells me that.’ That man turned out to be Swifty Lazar, the biggest agent in the world at the time-this was 1989-and sure enough, 15 minutes later I did get fired.” “I told him I wasn’t going to let him in, he got mad and told me that I’d be fired in 15 minutes. “One night a guy was going to come in, and he was very rude to me,” Palminteri told The A.V. While living in Los Angeles and trying to be an actor in the ’80s, Palminteri worked various jobs, including a gig as a bouncer at a nightclub. A BAD EXPERIENCE AS A BOUNCER INSPIRED CHAZZ PALMINTERI TO WRITE THE PLAY. To celebrate the film's 25th anniversary, here are 11 things you might not have known about A Bronx Tale. After 700 regular performances, the musical closed on Aug(though it's now on tour). Palminteri wrote the book and De Niro co-directed with Jerry Zaks. In 2007, Palminteri resurrected the play on Broadway, and in 2016 A Bronx Tale: The Musical began performances on Broadway. Partly based on Palminteri’s own life (yes, he really witnessed a murder), the semi-autobiographical film grossed $17.2 million against a $10 million budget. As Calogero grow ups, he sees Sonny as a father figure but also copes with his own father’s (De Niro) advice. The film, which is set in the Bronx in the 1960s, centers on a kid named Calogero “C” Anello who witnesses a mafia boss, Sonny (Palminteri), murder someone. Palminteri ended up writing the screenplay and using it as a vehicle to act in the film, whereas De Niro used the script to make his directorial debut. It was based on a one-man show Palminteri had started performing in Los Angeles in 1989, and then performed it Off-Broadway the same year. On September 29, 1993, the now-defunct Savoy Pictures distributed the coming-of-age crime drama A Bronx Tale, starring Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri.
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