'Code of Silence' flick shoots for Michael Madsen

Mike O'Dea, a Boston-based writer and actor who earned regional ink back in 2007 while shooting his low-budget flick "Townies," has approached actor Michael Madsen's reps for the mob boss role of "Fitz" in the upcoming made-in-Boston flick "Code of Silence."

"There are only several famous actors in the business that can pull off this specific role and Madsen is one of them," O'Dea writes here. "I guarantee you if Michael Madsen is cast in the film you will see nothing less than a Oscar-worthy performance."

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.

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 currently-in-production pilot for TNT called "Bunker Hill."

O'Dea, who recently signed a deal with Michael Z. Gordon of My Own Worst Enemy Productions, also changed the film's online domain from TheMostRealisticMobMovieEver.com to COSTrilogy.com because ... well ... "it's shorter" and "easy to remember." Go figure.

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