According to Variety, James Gandolfini looks to be returning to the criminal underworld, as he is in talks to join the cast of the Fox Searchlight crime pic “Animal Rescue” starring Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace. “Bullhead” helmer Michael R. Roskam will helm with his “Bullhead” star Matthias Schoenaerts on board to star. Pic is based on the Dennis Lehane short story and follows a man who wants to shed his criminal past but somehow gets mixed up in a bad heist and a killing, resulting from a lost and contested pitbull. The complete article can be read Variety.