story at length. But at the time, he was the one being fingered in press leaks as the culprit behind the flop. Reading stories about himself that interpreted events in a very different way to how he remembered them playing out, Trank found himself relating to stories about the end of Capone's life when the gangster also lost the ability to distinguish between fiction and the reality of his own identity.
"I just had all this time to myself where I spent five months leading up to the release of the biggest professional disaster of my life basically reading stories featuring a person named 'Josh Trank,' this sort of mythological tale about this disaster human being causing all this trouble and doing all these things that I myself didn't remember that way," Trank tells EW.
"There's this idea out there that certain humans are put on this planet to do something powerful, something larger-than-life, and they're going to save all of us," Trank says. "The worst thing that we can possibly do is buy into their myths and sell the propaganda of what makes these people incredible. I really don't care about that today; I want to know what gives them diarrhea.
Legends are often built on blood, betrayal, and opportunism. Gangster movies are often built on the juxtaposition between rise and fall, come-up and glory days.scrambles those equations in one particular sequence that replays some episodes from the height of its protagonist's power — but with senile old Capone inserted in the place of his younger self.