De Niro will play not one, but two, different Italian mob bosses in the film who are based on real-life mafia rivals, Vito Genovese ... into the early 1960s, both Costello and Genovese faced ...

It was during the early 1957 when Vito Genovese ordered the assassination of Frank Costello. He hired the infamous mobster Vincent Gigante, who shot Costello on May 2, 1957. The Alto Knights ...