Black Mass (2015) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Sep 28, 2015 · Black Mass beat Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Whitey Bulger movie to the screen, but theirs would've taken an Unforgiven-like approach to the tale.

Black Mass is a 2015 American biographical crime drama film about American mobster Whitey Bulger. Directed by Scott Cooper and written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, it is based on Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill 's 2000 book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob.

Sep 12, 2015 · One film he won’t be pursuing is his Whitey Bulger project with Ben Affleck, due to Scott Cooper’s upcoming biopic Black Mass starring Johnny Depp.

Sep 17, 2015 · Judging by crime movies of the past 10 years or so, Irish gangsters have largely supplanted Italian gangsters in the popular consciousness of the new millennium. In a roundabout way, Scott Cooper’s...

Black Mass: Directed by Scott Cooper. With Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson. The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Discover the star-studded cast of Black Mass and their portrayal of the infamous South Boston criminal, Whitey Bulger. Watch as FBI informant takes down Mafia family in this gritty crime drama.

Sep 23, 2015 · A comparison of Frank Costello in The Departed and Whitey Bulger in Black Mass reveals weaknesses in the latter.

Sep 19, 2015 · Unlike Jack Nicholson’s colorful turn as Irish mob boss Francis “Frank” Costello in The Departed (with Matt Damon), which conjured up too much of his Jack Torrance in The Shining, Depp nimbly contrasts Bulger’s icy charm with sudden explosions of murderous violence that bubble up from a brain seething with anger and a feral need for ...

Aug 4, 2015 · In the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie The Departed, Irish Mob boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) and his mole in the Massachusetts State Police Department, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), were loosely inspired by Irish-American Gangster Whitey Bulger and his corrupt FBI handler John Connolly.