For San Francisco film lovers, we are pleased to present this story from “The Moving Picture.”

According to the trades, GK Films has acquired the life rights of John Martorano, a former enforcer for James “Whitey” Bulger’s Boston-based Winter Hill Gang. Graham King (The Departed) is producing.

Martorano was a killer for the mob, murdering 20 people over a decade. After he discovered his compatriots, including Bulger, were government informants all along, Martorano became a government witness who exposed corruption and collusion between the mob and the Boston office of the FBI.

Martorano was released from prison in 2007 after serving 14 years. Bulger fled and is still a fugitive.

King met Martorano through Thomas B. Duffy, a former Massachusetts police detective who served as technical consultant on The Departed and Edge of Darkness.

GK Films also financed and produced Darkness, the upcoming Boston-based crime drama which stars Mel Gibson and was directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale). It was written by William Monahan and Andrew Bovell.

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