A Brooklyn-based attorney and author, Lawrence Kelter, has written a sequel to the cult film – My Cousin Vinny. In the original film, actors Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei played the lead roles.
Pesci plays Vincent Gambini, a loudmouth New York attorney who is called on to defend his cousin in a murder case in Alabama. The inexperienced Gambini tries his best to navigate a way out for himself and his cousin in the case, supported by Tomei’s Mona Lisa Vito. The sequel attempts to take the lives of Pesci and Tomei’s characters forward in a book series.
According to the New York Post, Kelter first reached out to the film’s screenwriter Dale Launer merely as a fan of the film. They hit it off, and then, Kelter obtained the rights and absolution from Launer and the film’s producer 20th Century Fox to do a book based on the film.
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“He said, ‘Hey, you’re pretty funny.’ So I said, ‘How about I take a crack at Vinny and Lisa and move their life forward in a book series?’ ”
In the book update, Vinny is working on a new case in his hometown, Brooklyn. He faces domestic and financial problems and also has to help a woman accused of killing her boyfriend. To complicate matters more, the victim is the brother of NY City’s Deputy Mayor.
The cast of My Cousin Vinny has not yet acknowledged the book series.
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