You Can’t Touch This

No you weren't dreaming, The Untouchables really is getting a sequel and the whole notion wasn't just part of some horrid LSD flashback caused by too much sugar on your Rice Krispies. We're sorry. Still, while you're here you might be interested (in a morbidly curious kind of way) to hear that the writing team behind Runaway Jury and Walking Tall have been given the go ahead to pen the project. Titled The Untouchables: Capone Rising, this film will require David Levien and Brian Koppelman to dream up a story of a rather more youthful (and, we're guessing, considerably less portly) Capone, as he begins his ascent within the mafia. The film will also feature a young version of Sean Connery's Jimmy Malone, at a time when he was as bent as all the other coppers on the Chicago PD. "The film starts on the eve of Capone's arrival, and while Malone wasn't the most corrupt cop, he operated at a time when every cop was on the take," Levien told Variety. "Once he crosses paths with Capone, he sees a level of violence and criminality that causes him to have a moral awakening." "This period of Capone's life hasn't been done since the movies of the '40s and '50s," said Koppelman. "[They] said, 'feel free to come up with the most compelling, dark, violent and complicated guy you've ever seen'". Quite clearly the whole thing hinges around the casting of big Al himself, though who'd want to have to compete with Robert De Niro's performance in the original is anyone's guess. Will Ferrell, you say? Could be. Could be...