In 1988, Bronx native Chazz Palminteri wrote the one-man autobiographical stage play A BRONX TALE, in which he plays all 18 characters. The powerful stage play depicted his bruising childhood, which included witnessing a gangland killing when he was nine years old. Palminteri received multiple offers from major Hollywood studios to turn the play into a film. None of these offers respected his wishes to write the screenplay and star in the role of Sonny, until Robert DeNiro saw the show and gave Palminteri the opportunity he had been waiting for.
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