Variety reports:
Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson have come on board to produce the Paramount crime drama "When Corruption Was King."No word yet from Alderman Ed Burke on this one. Will Alderman Burke be left out of the script? Wouldn't you know, it appears that Ari Emanuel represents Mark Wahlberg. No comment on this from Illinois Supreme Court justice Anne Burke.
They join Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Shane McCarthy, who are currently producing through Bowen's Temple Hill Entertainment shingle.
Frank Baldwin is adapting the script based on the Robert Cooley novel about a southside Chicago lawyer who becomes the mob's most trusted attorney until, as a state witness, he brings the organization down.
No production start date has been set as the film awaits a director. As with the many projects he's producing, there is the possibility that the film could be developed as a starring vehicle for Wahlberg -- but for now, he's only committed to produce.
