WHY YOU'RE HERE
COPS and ROBBERS... CRIME...
What's our fascination? As an audience we love it. I know I do.
DONNY BRASCO, SERPICO, THE TOWN, EASTERN PROMISES, TRAINING DAY, COP LAND, the list goes on. The Hong Kong crime drama INFERNAL AFFAIRS, the movie THE DEPARTED was based on, both great movies. The first season of WISE GUY, Vinnie Terranova and Sonny Steelgrave some of the best television made.
It's the characters we love. Characters we can relate to, that make us think, make us ask the hard questions and help us answer them.
The line between right and wrong is blurred. Relationships get in the way of the job. Who said family was easy? That choosing the right path isn't hard? What do you owe family? These questions make for great movies, big and small. These are the questions VIC TREVI will have to answer in WEST END.
WEST END is a crime drama that shares story points with Shakespeare's HAMLET. It's the romantic dark side of classic family feud stories with modern characters that people can relate to. That's what makes WEST END a sellable product.
New Jersey is the perfect landscape for WEST END. I know, I was born and raised here. It's got the elegance and grit all in the same breath. What a perfect place for people, characters, to struggle with the decisions of right and wrong.
My goal is to make a movie that I'd love to go see, because I love movies. So much so I made it my business, my passion.
Crime sells. We'll never get tired of it.
As my police chief uncle once said to me, "Joseph, I went one way, my friends went the other."