It’s been fifteen years since CASINO was released, and we haven’t had a team-up of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro since then. Although there have been several almosts, including Scorsese’s THE DEPARTED where Jack Nicholson’s role was originally intended for De Niro, it just hasn’t happened. Now it seems that they will finally team again, in a project that sounds perfect for the duo.
The film is called THE IRISHMAN, which is based off a book titled I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt, and is the story of Frank Sheeran, a mobster that is said to have killed killed Jimmy Hoffa and Joe Gallo. This is what De Niro had to say of the project:
“We have a more ambitious idea, hopefully, to make it a two-part type of film or two films. It’s an idea that came about from Eric Roth to combine these movies using the footage from ‘Paint Houses’ to do another kind of a [film that is] reminiscent of a kind of ‘8 1/2,’ ‘La Dolce Vita,’ [a] certain kind of biographical, semi-biographical type of Hollywood movie — a director and the actor — based on things Marty and I have experienced and kind of overlapping them.”
A two part film reminiscent of the work of Federico Fellini, made by Martin Scorsese! This has the workings of being a legendary film, it will be really interesting to see Scorsese and De Niro together again. The fact that it is a mobster film only makes it sound even more tasty.
Source MTV Movies Blog, via Joblo
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