Goodfellas meets in The Departed in paradise.
Just when you thought that today could not any better, news is spreading that the legendary director Martin Scorsese, Academy Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, former wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and British bombshell Emily Blunt are all teaming up to make a Hawaii crime drama.
Deadline is reporting:
The film focuses on a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands. It was a bloody battle, the kind of terrain Scorsese covered in both Goodfellas and The Departed. In 1960s and 70s Hawaii, this formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to build the islands’ most powerful criminal empire, waging a brutal war against mainland corporations and rival syndicates while fighting to preserve his ancestral land. It’s based on the untold true story of a man who fought to preserve his homeland through a ruthless quest for absolute power — igniting the last great American mob saga, where the war for cultural survival takes place in the unlikeliest of places: paradise.
Very cool but maybe not as cool as a book released twelve years ago, now, that provided an “unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu’s North Shore—a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty, greed, danger, and crime.”
Ah yes.
Back to the Scorsese-DiCaprio-Johnson-Blunt joint, though, word around town is that a fierce bidding war is currently underway to make it with a projected budget of $200,000,000. Netflix is currently the odds-on favorite to win. The losers can comfort themselves, though, by bidding on another Hawaii story about an “exciting and dangerous place where locals, outsiders, the surf industry, and criminal elements clash. A fascinating look at class, race, power, money, and crime, set within one of the most beautiful places on earth. The result is a breathtaking blend of crime and adventure that captures the allure and wickedness of this idyllic golden world.”
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I’ve been to Auburn once.
Fuck it’s bleak.
Nappy Pulawa and Uncle Charlie Stevens were vicious gangsters who controlled organised crime in Hawaii in the 1970’s, using brutal tactics to maintain their place at the top of the pyramid.
The Company
Ronnie Ching was a reptilian hitman and heroin addict who killed on demand. He was eventually convicted on four counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to four life terms in federal prison on the mainland, not Hawaii.
Dwayne Johinson probably doesn’t have the acting chops to play Ronnie, but Jason Momoa could do it.
spent time in Hawaii in 73-4′ with Reno Abeleira , surfing ,getting boards shaped and also quite a lot of partying……met some of his brothers but what was really interesting was the story of his father who was an enforcer for the Hawaii mafia….shot in the back in a bar by the cops….as no other crime syndicates could penetrate the Hawaiian mafia…so cops were paid and as the enforcers were eliminated so the spread of the Asian and mainland crime gangs ensued….even was at Danes once and saw the headlines that 2 men /Kealoha’s had been arrested for being hit men living in Kauai…I jokingly said ,” is that your retirement plan……he answered ‘they are my uncles!”
Irino “Reno” Abellira, Reno’s father, was a famous Honolulu gangster back in the day.
He was shot dead in a Chinatown pool hall under mysterious circumstances in 1965.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-advertiser-underworld-mum/101104255/?fbclid=IwY2xjawImE1dleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHaOkuUOfafslZiD8SxZnLAAaxT2_MHD373fE4RO6MEjxH2O0fCZAy26B1w_aem_jdb5sUL71V_Krfd8UHFWvA
“Abellira” is a Spanish surname, via The Philippines – not Hawaiian.
yep and reno told me it was the cops who shot his dad….are you also implying that reno’s not Hawaiian?
Abellira is a Spanish surname, via The Philippines – not “Hawaiian”.
His father Irino Abellira and his grandfather, Santiago Abellira are certainly Filipino ethnicity.
In Hawaii, it is common knowledge that “Abellira” is a Filipino surname – not Hawaiian. Not sure why it is a surprise elsewhere.
yep. you remember it well. all hell broke loose in the 70’s when The Company was challenged. there were so many shootings, stabbings and disapperearnces.
if only cane fields could talk.
yep the shit I saw on the Nth shore in 73 was mind boggling for a young surfer. Guns /knives people being dealt with on a level that only be called the wild wild west…..I think at one stage in the 90’s…48 people had disappeared on the N shore…..possibly visiting the cane fields and some offshore reefs…..
Marconi’s land, apparently, has received more than few midnight burials.
When that dead whale washed ashore at Marconi’s a few years ago, the stench was terrible – permeated the entire North Shore.
The state said they were going to send out some heavy equipment and dig a trench and bury tons of rotting whale meat on the spot.
The next evening, the landowner was on the news saying there would be “no digging on my land – no way, no how”
The state had to use a big net and hire a tugboat to get the carcass off the beach and bury it elsewhere.
Mmmmm. Can’t imagine why.
Hawaii during the 70’s was pretty heavy. I was young but remember the stories.
Here’s one: one of my “Uncles” was a mob enforcer for the Hawaiian mob. he was tasked with taking out a couple of triads. Prior to going into the club, he dropped a tab of acid, walked in and killed his target(s). although convicted, he was not convicted of 1st degree and served a minimal sentence, because he was wasted on acid at the time of the shootings.
it would probably be a good film if Dwayne Johnson, wasn’t in it.
lot of great content.
Soooo, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s in it.
Must be a feelgood action comedy then ?
Maybe a musical!!!
Is there a diminutive character that all but abandons his family, but has plenty of time to spend hours a day online spitting pearls of wisdom to cranks and weirdos? Because I know a guy.
Does this guy have a kid with no name?
I just woke up in agony, was dreaming of scoring the winner for Arsenal in the FA cup final and i kicked the brick wall next to the bed so fuken hard i think my big toe is busted.
I could have easily kicked the mrs in the head .
Fuck!!! But yeah movie sounds good ,whatever.
you kicked a “brick wall next to your bed”?
what’s your cell number?
man if you had kicked the mrs. in the head, you would have got shivved in the shower.
Unless his wife is Lorena Bobbit!
imagine getting tossed in the clink, you enter your cell and your cellmate introduces itself as “The Missus“.
or worse , he smiles at you and says” ah my new missus!”
ah, you’ve been there.
Humble unit by the beach
So, did it go in?
she did ask that !!
I dunno
Those what ifs can be haunting. At least you scored a great tale.
🤣
Is Eddie Rothman a consultant yet?
They should make a hawaii thriller and call it; “1/1024th + pidgin = Hawaiian”
Emily showed no boobs in Sicario, a movie that’s about as gruesome as they come and got an ‘R’ rating. So no boobs in Hawaii 5.1 and relegated to PG. I’ll pass on The Rock ’cause he could never fill Magnum, P.I’s shoes, Tiger ball cap and the red Ferrari.
She showed even less in sicario 2
i think the new James Bond should be a tall white brown-haired Englishman
who enjoys wearing tuxedos, playing baccarat, drinking martinis, smoking
cigarettes, liquidating the King’s enemies with extreme prejudice, and
engaging in fleshy congress with as many fine-ass women as the demands
of his profession will permit.
Oh dear. Have I just committed a hate crime?
If there is no cameo of Chas playing a sleazy Waikīkī drug lord. I ain’t watching.
Weedy white guy with neck Tatts has to be a dealer or informant.
Loading up the woody.
https://youtu.be/-GcRokW1_A0?si=4j_IEdCZIYz17idz
And this is what I’m talking about.
White, strawberry.
https://youtu.be/yQ2iTMP9TPo?si=vRWZK6xcTOiYk44t
O’ahu woulda thought?
If it’s another snoozefest like The Irishman I’ll pass
Kill the Irishman about Danny Greene was a good movie.
So we’re finally getting an Eddie Rothman biopic.
Yeah, that will never happen.
A small Jewish boy from New Jersey gets tired of the cold winters so hops on a pan am flight from Newark to Honolulu where he is thrust into the dark underbelly of the tiny black shorts. Played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Played by Robert Downey Jr in blackface like in Tropic Thunder.