Lindsay Lohan Never Really Signed-On For Gotti Role

August 4, 2011 by Hollywoodite

Lindsay Lohan has been relying on her coke-shenanigans, and smoke and mirrors provided by her mother, to convince people that she is part of this monstorous Gotti movie no one asked for. It was reported that Lohan had a pretty major role as a young Victoria Gotti, until her delusional mother’s demands got her fired. Then, because TMZ is her mouthpiece and she’s been transparently feeding them false information, it was reported that she negotiated her way back into the project in a minor role: Kim Gotti, the daughter-in-law. So she was basically demoted from a major role to a bit-part that required nudity.

Only, you know, it’s just more of her coke-lies because those negotiations were never settled and she never scored the role. As in, she never sealed the deal and producers didn’t even decide after all these months whether they even wanted her.

Days after Joe Pesci apparently called it quits via a lawsuit on the upcoming Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father comes word that Lindsay Lohan is not yet locked in to her role. Neither, it turns out, are Al Pacino and Kelly Preston.

So what’s going on here? Well, we know what happened with Pesci. The actor was a no-go after he claimed Fiore Films, which is producing the movie, pulled a switcheroo on him and offered him a lesser role for less money after he packed on the pounds to play mob enforcer Angelo Ruggiero. He’s now suing for $3 million. Fiore CEO Mark Fiore says Pesci never had a written contract.

Now, Lohan, who has lobbied hard for the film, first for the plum role of John Gotti Sr.’s wife, Victoria Gotti, and then taking on the smaller part of John Gotti Jr.’s wife, Kim Gotti, has yet to ink a deal. However, producers are still in talks with the actress, says Steve Honig, the rep for both Lohan and the film. “The producers of the film and Lindsay’s representation have not yet worked out an agreement for her to appear in the movie. At this point, we cannot provide a definitive answer either way,” Honig said, adding “Fiore is still very much in talks with Lindsay Lohan to play the role of Kim Gotti.”

Likewise, producers say Preston will appear in the film, even though her contract has not been finalized.

The project has been troubled from the get-go. Aside from the distractions caused by Lohan’s legal woes and the Pesci lawsuit, there was a major change at the helm as original director Nick Cassavetes was replaced by Barry Levinson.

So who does the film actually have on board? Ben Foster, who starred in The Messenger and 3:10 to Yuma, has just been cast Gotti Jr., while John Travolta remains under contract to play the Teflon Don himself. – via E! Online.

This movie’s going to be a mess; it’s already a legal mess. And Kim Kardashian was considered for the role Lohan’s now lying about. Which shows how low they were stooping in order to scrape the bottom of that barrel. And the rest of the cast is a mess too.

Okay, so the movie’s evidently still in pre-production, where a lot of this stuff does happen and go wrong, but they still need to get their s**t together.

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