What's in the works
The FIRST in a NEW SERIES OF SHORTS BY RALPH BAKSHI
Last Days of Coney Island is an upcoming project written, produced, directed and animated by filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, about a NYPD detective, the prostitute he alternately loves and arrests, and the seedy characters that haunt the streets of New York City's run-down amusement district.
It's an animated cop, mafia, horror movie set in the 1960s in Coney Island, with political overtones both realistic and outrageous.
Groundbreaking Director Ralph Bakshi Returns with New Animation, New Characters, and New Stories in "Last Days of Coney Island Part One"!
Modine will voice the lead character, a 4-foot-tall mafia collector who thinks he's Elvis Presley and sings like Chet Baker.
It’s a series of shorts set against the strange backdrop of Coney Island and all its weird characters: crooked cops, broken hearts, jaded strippers, and singers. The stories take place on and around Coney’s garish, freaky midways and in it’s dark alleyways. They discuss America: Kennedy’s assassination, the mafia, Bobby Dylan, Vietnam, Dick Tracy, Miss America, and more.