Deadline is
reporting that Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are circling The Irishman,
a film that Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro have been working on for
quite a while. It’s based on the real-life mob hitman Frank “the
Irishman” Sheeran, as portrayed in Charles Brandt’s book I Heard You Paint Houses.
Brandt conducted nearly five years of interviews with the killer and
uncovered a vast amount of info from unsolved mysteries… Sheeran being
the man who claims to have killed Jimmy Hoffa. The title of the book
comes from the
first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to the Irishman,
and of course
“paint houses” isn’t as innocent as it sounds- it
means painting with someone’s blood.
Pacino, Pesci, and De Niro in a
Scorsese film. Let that sink in a bit, and then wish that it was a
decade or two ago… for the actors, at least. Pacino and De Niro of
course first teamed up in Michael Mann’s Heat, a fantastic film that would have
been better without a needlessly contrived ending, and went on to do a
couple of much more crappy films together. For the record, this will be
Pacino’s first time working with Scorsese (!), and De Niro’s first time
working with his old pal since Casino.
Scorsese is currently working on Hugo
Cabret
and Deadline is quick to point out that there are a few other projects
he’s considering for his next. One of the most interesting ones is Silence,
that would star Benicio Del Toro, Daniel Day Lewis and Gabriel Garcia
Bernal as Jesuits trying to preach Christianity in 17th Century Japan.
But
with all those famous Italians on one bill, it’ll be hard to pass up The Irishman.
More as we hear it!
18 comments
hooooooooooooo ha
I'll let Martin finger my kids if this movie happens and is any good. If its brilliant he can fist them apart.
According to Aintitcool.com, if these guys do get together then they're also considering filming a second movie back-to-back. The second one would be an 8 1/2-like "biographical, semi-biographical of movie" about their experiences in the film business. All this news is just too crazy to believe. Personally, I hope Scorsese gets his dream team together for this–it seems like the stars will only align properly just this once–before moving on to SILENCE, which also looks amazing. Geez. I hope I have half of Scorsese's drive when I'm his age…I think this last decade has actually been his most productive when you take into account all the documentaries and HBO shows he's been doing. Amazing. He could never quit and it'd be too soon.
Cause she's got a great ass! And you got yo head…all the way up it!
…so which one of these 3 Italians is "the Irishman"?
Why was there a "needlessly contrived ending" in Heat? I thought the ending was quite good.
Yeah, I think the categorisation of the airfield shoot out and how they ended up there as contrived is a bit harsh. Thematically essential, definitely.
#5 – DeNiro is only a quarter Italian. He's mostly Irish/Dutch
I liked the ending of Heat, I think some people viewed DeNiro as the hero of the show and that might be where their complaint stems from. Fair enough.
Everyone seems to forget that DeNiro's character in Goodfellas was Irish.
"I got two dead bodies down on ventura boulevard.. I'm sorry Justine….if the goddamn chicken……got overcooked."
For myself who is a huge fan of the movie Heat the ending was bittersweet and I wouldnt say a contrived ending as much as a curious one. Neil McCauly was a calculating character, who lived life by a strong set of rules. He bent one with keeping the woman (Judge Amy), and I think that was the spring board for his destruction. I think had the woman not softened his head, or heart he would have let Waingro live for a bit get out of the country on cue and asked Nate (Jon Voight) to take care of the killing. HOwever they wanted to have Pacino get the badguy and we got what we got. That was the last film that I feel like DeNiro gave true effort in and he took a cold heartless thief and killer and made you root for him. Where has that charisma gone? Little Fockers?? This country has failed….
its not that the irishman doesn't sound cool. but silence is much more my cup of tea
***mike o)))#5 – DeNiro is only a quarter Italian. He's mostly Irish/Dutch***
How can anyone be mostly Irish/Dutch and a bit italian. A nonsensical notion.
Don't know who's playing who but if they still need a Hoffa, they should get Jack Nicholson to reprise his role. They can de-age him digitally if they have to. Hell he's no older than these other dinosaurs.
I thought it was Ray Liottas character who was Irish?
#15, I don't remember the ethnicity of Liotta's character, but De Niro's character's last name was Conway. Not very Italian. (Plus, it's explicitly stated in Liotta's narration that Conway is of Irish descent.) As far as Heat, the ending struck me as being similar to the endings mandated by the Motion Picture Code back in the '30s and '40s where the bad guy has to pay for his crimes. I'm not saying that as a criticism, though. I think the ending works really well.
I can completely forgive Mann for wanting to make De Niro and Pacino have one final faceoff at the end of Heat, but come on. They manage to run into each other among all that chaos and then have that (visually awesome) shootout at the end… it was just a little too convenient for me.
As for Goodfellas, both Liotta and De Niro's characters were half-Irish- hence why they couldn't get made.
righteous kill and…?
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