HOLLYWOOD’S rumour mill is in overdrive after John Travolta’s new movie, Gotti, was dropped just 10 days before it’s scheduled release date.
Lionsgate dropped the John Gotti biopic at the eleventh hour, and gave no explanation for selling “Gotti” back to the production company,
TMZ said.
The movie was due for release on December 15 and co-stars Travolta’s real-life wife Kelly Preston as crime boss John Gotti’s wife.
It’s a bizarre move for a major studio to pull a movie so close to release.
Sources say the studio has cut all ties with the project
Travolta, 63, plays Gotti in multiple stages of his life, including when he finally went to prison in 1992. Gotti himself died while still in jail in 2002.
It’s a fresh hurdle for Hollywood heavyweight Travolta, who last month
was accused of sexual harassment in the continued fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
The
Pulp Fiction star, 63, was accused of groping a male masseur, then aged 21, on his “bare buttocks, exposing himself, and making lewd suggestions” according to a police report obtained by
RadarOnline
The case was eventually “closed unfounded”, with police finding the “details do not meet the elements of battery … or sexual battery”.
The incident had previously been reported but police documentation only came to light in mid-November.