John A. “Junior” Gotti’s film about his relationship with his father starts production with John Travolta as “The Teflon Don”

By Peter Lance. July 29th, 2016. After more than five years in development, the long awaited feature film biopic inspired by John A. Gotti’s memoir “The Shadow of My Father” began production this week.

In the fall of 2014 I wrote the Foreword to “Shadow” and since then John Jr. has been working to produce the film based on a script he co-wrote. This piece from yesterday’s U.K. Daily Mail is a good overview of the tortuous, multi-year process of getting the epic story on film. It includes a number of pictures from the set and from the Gotti family archives. Kevin “Entourage” Connolly is directing. The film will be released next year by Lionsgate.