Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Peter Facinelli Confirmed to Play Boxer Vinny Paz

Michael Corrente has confirmed that Peter Facinelli, who plays the patriarch of the Cullen clan in the films “Twilight” and “Twilight Saga: New Moon,” has been signed to play Vinny Paz in the film “Paz,” which will chronicle the former boxer’s struggle back to world champion after a traffic accident that broke his neck and threatened to end his career.

Facinelli, who also costars on the hit cable show “Nurse Jackie,” replaces actor Scott Caan, who had costarred in Corrente’s “Brooklyn Rules” and originally was going to play Paz. Corrente said, “We wanted Scott Caan only if [his father] James Caan could play his father in the movie. But because of scheduling problems we weren’t going to be able to make that happen.”

Corrente and Verdi said they hope to begin filming “Paz,” which the director said had a budget of between $5 million and $8 million, in Rhode Island in early 2011. However, he added that they may be forced to look elsewhere if a bill to eliminate the state’s film tax credit, which gives filmmakers a tax credit on 25 percent of their budget, is passed.

In that case he said, he might be forced to make “Paz” in Massachusetts or Connecticut “or Michigan, which has a 42-percent tax credit, with only two days of exterior work in Rhode Island.”

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