The Outfit (2022)
In 1956, Leonard Burling (Mark Rylance), an English tailor with a history of crafting suits on London’s Savile Row, operates a small tailor shop in a Chicago neighborhood controlled by mobster Roy Boyle (Simon Russell Beale), who also happens to be one of Burling’s best customers.
FIVE FACTS:
1. The film’s title has a dual meaning, as the Chicago mafia is otherwise known as ‘The Outfit’.
2. Johnny Flynn plays Boyle’s chief enforcer Francis, while Dylan O’Brien portrays Boyle’s son and second-in-command, Richie.
3. Unlike Martin Scorsese’s similar gangster film The Irishman, The Outfit is entirely fictional.
4. Nonetheless, the story is inspired by the FBI planting an electronic bug inside a Chicago tailor shop in 1956.
5. The Outfit director Graham Moore explained in an interview…