The upcoming film Gotti: Three Generations is certainly getting a lot of buzz. It’s probably due to a whole lot of top notch talent joining the cast.

Al Pacino is the latest actor cast in the mobster bio-pic, which also stars John Travolta, Joe Pesci and Lindsay Lohan.

Pacino will play Gotti Sr.’s associate Neil Dellacroce.

The deal was announced earlier today at the Cannes Film Festival by executive producer Marc Fiore;

“Al Pacino is one of the finest actors of all time, and will bring an unsurpassed level of reality and excitement to the film,” said Fiore. “We are very pleased to have Al join the extraordinary team that we are assembling to make this movie.”

Directing and writing credits were switched from Nick Cassavetes to Barry Levinson last month, and production is slated to begin later this fall.

We can expect the film to hit theaters in the latter part of 2012.