Actor David Harbour has been having a moment, taking a role in last year’s Marvel flick “Black Widow,” and returning for the fourth season of the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things” next month. The veteran actor’s latest project will see him take an interesting genre role and team with a director on the rise.
Coming off the $15 million deal at Apple TV+ for his film “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” wunderkind director Cooper Raiff has cast Harbour as his lead in the true-crime drama “The Trashers.” The film may end up heading to the film market at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
“The Trashers” has a script penned by Adam R. Perlman (“Billions“) with current revisions by Raiff.
The film will explore the rise and fall of Jimmy Galante, played by Harbour, a real-life Connecticut trash magnate and associate of the Genovese crime family who has been dubbed “the real Tony Soprano.” Galante bought a minor hockey league team, the Danbury Trashers, in 2004 and had his son AJ Galante run it as the general manager. Galante was eventually arrested on 72 criminal charges.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Genoveses, they’re an Italian-American mob family that is part of the “Five Families” that mainly operate in New York and New Jersey.
Harbour is no stranger to the crime genre with credits such as “The Equalizer,” “No Sudden Move,” “End of Watch,” “Snitch,” “A Walk Among The Tombstones,” “Sleepness,” and “Black Mass.”
It’ll be fun to see Harbour playing a character that could end up mirroring the iconic “Sopranos” patriarch. We’ll be curious to see if Raiff will be as bold as to cast actors connected to the HBO series and prequel film, “The Many Saints of Newark.”