Onassis Movie Updates

Tue., Apr. 19, 2011

from New York Magazine

City of God’s Fernando Meirelles Is Developing an Aristotle Onassis Biopic

Director Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener) is reteaming with his City of God screenwriter Bráulio Mantovani on a biopic of Aristotle Onassis called, appropriately enough, Onassis. Insiders tell Vulture that it's set up at France's Pathe, and that Meirelles "sees it as a sort of Godfather, with Onassis at the...

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• Focused on Onassis's antipathic relationship with Robert Kennedy. As attorney general, Bobby had investigated Aristotle Onassis’s sketchy international business practices and banned him from trading with the U.S. Their rivalry over control of and a... show all ccess to Jackie culminated in Onassis’s alleged financing of the assassination of the presidential hopeful.

• added Pathé as a production company
• added Braulio Mantovani to the credits
• added Fernando Meirelles to the credits
• changed the production status to Development
• created the movie profile