Fiore Films has confirmed that John Travolta will pay John Gotti Jr. in Gotti: Three Generations for director Nick Cassavetes and screenwriter Leo Rossi.

For a number of months, John Travolta had been rumored for the lead. The storyline will follow John Gotti Senior's life as a mob boss, and his son, John Gotti Jr., who decided to leave that world behind and redeem himself.

Nick Cassavetes will shoot the entire film on location in New York later this year. This will be John Travolta's first starring role since appearing in the 2010 action comedy From Paris with Love.