Barry Levinson is now directing David Mamet’s JFK assassination movie
The drama has Al Pacino, Shia LaBeouf, Courtney Love, and John Travolta attached

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Back in May, we heard about the interesting cast of Assassination, a David Mamet-penned drama about mobster Sam Giancana’s supposed involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy—with Giancana’s nephew, Nicholas Celozzi, involved behind the scenes. Mamet was supposed to direct the movie himself, a rare move for him that afforded us the opportunity to point out some of his Trumpy political opinions.