More Irish mob filming with 'Code of Silence'

Mike O'Dea, a Boston-based writer and actor who earned regional ink back in 2007 while shooting his low-budget flick "Townies," has signed a deal with Michael Z. Gordon of My Own Worst Enemy Productions to produce "Code of Silence."

Based on the YouTube film "Townies," the full-length feature is ... no surprise here ... part of an Irish mob trilogy slotted to be shot during a four-week stint in Somerville beginning on Saint Patrick's Day, March 17, 2009.

Here's the plot from IMDB: Mickey Callaghan is a regular guy who grew up in Somerville, Mass. He heads his father's blue-collar company during the day and trains as a professional boxer at night. But his father John Callaghan is not so ordinary, he's a feared and ruthless Winter Hill crime boss.

O'Dea generated a lot of buzz back in Nov. 2007 when he filmed a shoot 'em up scene for "Townies" in Charlestown's Paul Revere Park without having the proper film permits. Police obviously thought the scene was the real deal.

According to IMDB here, O'Dea moved the setting of the film from Charlestown to Somerville to avoid any confusion with Ben Affleck's upcoming flick "The Town" and Donnie Wahlberg's pilot for TNT called "Bunker Hill."

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