The Untouchables — does it need a prequel?

Hannibal Rising was a flop, but that evidently hasn’t stopped the producers of the similarly-titled and similarly-unnecessary prequel The Untouchables: Capone Rising from going ahead with their own project. A week or two ago it was revealed that the 43-year-old Nicolas Cage would play “the young Al Capone” — which, as Jeffrey Wells noted, was an odd bit of casting, given that the real Capone was sent to jail at the age of 32 and he was played in the earlier film by the 43-year-old Robert De Niro. And now the MTV Movies Blog confirms that the 37-year-old Gerard Butler will play “the young Jimmy Malone” — a character created by Sean Connery, who won an Oscar for the role, when he was 56.