Your eyes do not deceive you. Joe Pesci is making a rare acting return, opposite Pete Davidson no less. We’ve got our first look at “Bupkiss.”
Oscar-winner Pesci plays Davidson’s grandfather in the upcoming peacock comedy series, an elevated, fictionalized version of Pete Davidson’s real life. Created, starring and executive written by the “SNL” alum, “combining grounded storytelling with the unfiltered and absurd elements of the completely original worldview for which Pete is well known”.
Pesci was last seen onscreen in 2019’s “The Irishman,” for which director Martin Scorsese worked hard to get the “Goodfellas” actor out of retirement. Prior to that film, Pesci had not been seen onscreen since 2010’s “Love Ranch,” which preceded 2006’s “The Good Shepherd.”
Production is underway on “Bupkiss,” which also stars Edie Falco as Davidson’s mother.
Davidson previously mined her personal life for the 2020 film “The King of Staten Island,” a drama inspired by her own life story and starring Marisa Tomei as her mother. David Cirrus, who co-wrote “King of Staten Island” with Davidson, is a writer and executive producer on “Bupkiss” with showrunner, writer and executive producer Juda Miller (“Crashing”).
Lorne Michaels will executive produce for the Broadway video, with Andrew Singer and Erin David also executive producing. Jason Orly will direct and co-executive the production. The series – which does not yet have a release date – comes from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studios Group, and Broadway Video.