As Scorsese's Silence gets ready to release, here is a snippet about what looks to be nearly officially the next project on the slate for him, The Irishman. From The Toronto Sun...
DeNiro and Scorsese made eight films together between 1973 and 1995: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, New York New York, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, GoodFellas, Cape Fear, and Casino. Eight projects in twenty-two years. 2017 will mark the twenty-second year since Casino's release. DiCaprio has been catching up over the past decade and a half, starring in five Scorsese projects to date (Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, and The Wolf of Wall Street) with a sixth on the horizon in the next couple years (The Devil in the White City).
Citing “unfinished business” that he has with long-time close friend and collaborator Robert De Niro, filmmaker Martin Scorsese is planning to shoot The Irishman with De Niro and Al Pacino in the new year. Among all his possibilities, “The Irishman is the one for which the script is finished!” Scorsese told Sun Media in an interview for his new film Silence. Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List, Gangs of New York, Moneyball) has turned in a final version.
De Niro has held the project near-and-dear for a decade, having pitched Scorsese soon after he read the 2005 Charles Brandt book, I Heard You Paint Houses. That title is a Mob euphemism for making a contract hit. Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran is a real-life hitman who was supposedly responsible for at least twenty-five mob murders; and Sheeran claimed to be the one who assassinated Jimmy Hoffa.
“You know,” Scorsese said, “De Niro and I have some unfinished business, so it looks like that might be next!” Told that outsiders also want to see De Niro and Pacino on screen together again in a crime movie, Scorsese laughed and said: “Me, too!”
The unfinished business is re-teaming with De Niro. “We’ve been trying for years to do something again, since Casino, but we’ve never got the right story. This seems to be the right one.” De Niro, said Scorsese, “had tears in his eyes when he described this to me, and I think I know how to do it.”
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/12/14/the-irishman-martin-scorsese-says-his-de-niro-pacino-crime-movie-to-be-filmed-next-year
De Niro has held the project near-and-dear for a decade, having pitched Scorsese soon after he read the 2005 Charles Brandt book, I Heard You Paint Houses. That title is a Mob euphemism for making a contract hit. Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran is a real-life hitman who was supposedly responsible for at least twenty-five mob murders; and Sheeran claimed to be the one who assassinated Jimmy Hoffa.
“You know,” Scorsese said, “De Niro and I have some unfinished business, so it looks like that might be next!” Told that outsiders also want to see De Niro and Pacino on screen together again in a crime movie, Scorsese laughed and said: “Me, too!”
The unfinished business is re-teaming with De Niro. “We’ve been trying for years to do something again, since Casino, but we’ve never got the right story. This seems to be the right one.” De Niro, said Scorsese, “had tears in his eyes when he described this to me, and I think I know how to do it.”
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/12/14/the-irishman-martin-scorsese-says-his-de-niro-pacino-crime-movie-to-be-filmed-next-year
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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra
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