The Bookie & the Bruiser

The Bookie & the Bruiser

In 1959 New York, a pensive Jewish fellow named Rivner befriends an oversized Italian-American tough named Boscolo from the Lower East Side. Both men served overseas during WWII and returned changed, no longer fitting inside the lives they'd left behind. Uninterested in taking orders from bosses or playing by the rules of polite society, the two friends partner up as a bookmaker and an enforcer and create an illicit gambling operation that proves to be very profitable, though risky, and their situation gets rather sticky when they find themselves stuck between a powerful Irish gang and the Mafia.

Genres
Crime, Thriller, Drama
Director
S. Craig Zahler

Casting

Interesting facts

The Bookie & the Bruiser is an upcoming American crime drama film written and directed by S. Craig Zahler. It stars Vince Vaughn, Theo James, Fred Melamed, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Paul Ben-Victor.

Production

In May 2024, at the Cannes Film Festival, the film was announced to be in pre-production, with C2 Motion Picture Group financing it and an expected start date for principal photography later in the year. In August, Vince Vaughn teased that filming would begin either in late 2024 or early 2025. In May 2025, Theo James joined the cast, replacing Adrien Brody in the role. Fred Melamed joined the cast in April 2026.

Principal photography began in Toronto on April 7, 2026, under the ruse title Christmas Mysteries, and was scheduled to wrap on May 21. Benji Bakshi served as the cinematographer. Filming also took place at the historic Parkwood Estate in Oshawa, Ontario in mid May.

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