- Actor Michael Imperioli will star as Governor Cuomo in a new Showtime series
- The film, ‘Escape at Dannemora’, will reenact the 2015 prison break involving two inmates who escaped with the help of a woman they were having an affair with
- The film will be an eight-hour limited series based on the true events
- When the prisoner were captured at the time, Cuomo said: ‘If you were writing a movie plot, they would say that this was overdone’
- He added in the statement afterward: ‘The nightmare is finally over’
Actor Michael Imperioli (pictured above) will star as Governor Cuomo in a Showtime series
New York-born actor Michael Imperioli will star in the guest role of Governor Cuomo in an upcoming Showtime crime series.
The film, ‘Escape at Dannemora’, will reenact the summer 2015 incident from the Clinton Correctional Facility involving two convicted killers who escaped with the assistance of a married female inmate they were each having an affair with.
‘The Sopranos’ star will work alongside actor Benicio Del Toro, who will play inmate Richard Matt, as well as Paul Dano, who will star as David Sweat, according to a Variety report released Thursday.
Actress Patricia Arquette will portray female prisoner, Tilly Mitchell, who became sexually involved with the men and helped execute the infamous prison break that took 23 days complete.
Gov. Cuomo called the 2015 prison break of inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat to be a ‘nightmare’
An investigation into the prison break of David Sweat (left) and his former cohort Richard Matt (right) concluded that they seduced a married prion worker into almost daily sex before she assisted in their escape
The highly-anticipated film will be directed by Ben Stiller.
Matt was first shot and killed by a SWAT team near the Canadian border when he was found armed with a 20-gauge shotgun.
Authorities later tracked down Sweat – who was shot by a state trooper then taken into custody, according to The New York Times.
Cuomo said at the time: ‘If you were writing a movie plot, they would say that this was overdone’
Sweat, who is already serving a life sentence without parole for the 2002 murder of a police officer, received an additional sentence for the crimes last February in Clinton County Court.
‘The nightmare is finally over,’ Gov. Cuomo said during a news conference at the time.
‘These were really dangerous, dangerous men,’ he told New York State Police Superintendent, Joseph A. D’Amico.
‘If you were writing a movie plot, they would say that this was overdone.’