What can I say? This one is happening, just as we feared it would.

Martin Guigui (who?) is directing a hybrid prequel/sequel to Martin Scorsese‘s landmark 1980 boxing film Raging Bull. This one, Raging Bull II, was co-written by Guigui and Rustam Branaman, and stars William Forsythe as the older Jake LaMotta, and Mojean Aria playing the younger version of LaMotta for scenes that take place before Scorsese’s film. (Robert De Niro played LaMotta for Scorsese.)

Joe Mantegna, Tom Sizemore, Penelope Ann Miller, Natasha Henstridge, Alicia Witt, Ray Wise, Harry Hamlin, Bill Bellamy and James Russo are all in the cast, too, according to Variety. That’s not a bad cast, and I do love Forsythe — the guy’s a great presence — but the idea of trying to stand up against Scorsese’s film is not one I’d want to entertain. Good luck, all!

Hopefully they’ve got a better idea of what this movie should be than Scorsese does. The original director recently admitted, “I really don’t know what Raging Bull II would be.”

Raging Bull II is filming at the Universal lot and on locations in LA. We’ll show you footage when it becomes available. In the meantime, Alicia Witt tweeted a couple photos of her look for the film.

Here’s part of the publisher’s description of LaMotta’s book this film is based on: