It’s Goodfellas meets Casino meets Heat. So if you’re a fan of those great crime movies, get ready: I’m told Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are now circling The Irishman, the mob drama that Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro have been working on together based on the exploits of mob hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran as chronicled in the book I Heard You Paint Houses. The pic’s being developed at Paramount by De Niro and Jane Rosenthal’s Tribeca Productions.
Pacino has worked with De Niro in the Michael Mann-directed classic Heat, as well as Righteous Kill. Pesci and De Niro of course teamed with Scorsese on Goodfellas, Casino and Raging Bull. Steve Zaillian wrote the script.
Right now, Scorsese’s off directing the 3D Hugh Cabret for GK Films, and this is one of a couple pictures he’s considering next. Others include Silence, based on the Shusako Endo novel. Scorsese and GK Films nearly had the pic together with Benicio Del Toro, Daniel Day-Lewis and Gabriel Garcia Bernal in the Jay Cocks-scripted saga of Jesuits who face danger as they preach Christianity and try to find their mentor in 17th Century Japan. Scorsese will be in New York Wednesday as HBO premieres the pilot he directed for Boardwalk Empire, which is superb.
Righteous Kill left me a little jaded, but I’d be lying if I didn’t think this has the possibility of being a great return to form for all of those involved.
Sharon Stone = No.
Lorraine Braco = Yes.
And please insist that Mr. Pacino wear a black suit that fits.
Nearly spit out my drink when I read the bit about Sharon Stone. I’d just skimmed the bit so I thought I’d missed mention of her casting. Knock on wood it doesn’t happen now…
sharon the personality is bad, sharon the actress is great. she may ham it up at times but she always gives it her all.
This has blockbuster written all over it. Pacino, Pesci, Scorsese = dream team.
So this film is being made directly for the over-50 audience, since there’s nobody behind or in front of the camera under the age of 60?
Yes of course, No body under 50 goes to see these movies….right?
You should check your film history……I won’t bother to name all those other “over 50” movies that attracted big audiences…….and made money, as this one will. I’m sure if you spend 10 seconds thinking you’ll come up with lots of them.
What are you talking about? I started watching the Sopranos when I was 16. Obsessed w/ everything from ‘Scarface’ to ‘The Godfather’ to ‘Little Ceasar’ to ‘Goodfellas’ since I could sit still and watch ’em.
All my friends were the same. Bunch of us who lived in the same house went to see ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’ because it was Sidney Lumet directing.
Give the Millennial a little credit here…
There’s a big difference difference between John Avnet and Martin Scorsese that you could never make a comparison between the two other then they both worked for DeNiro.
Scorsese and DeNiro working together again is always going to be great and with Pesci and( finally) Pachino. Its alreacy a classic in the making.
Please greenlight this movie whoever’s got the cash. I need to put Scorsese back on a pedestal and Shutter Island will take some getting over. Pistol Pete you’re wrong about Sharon, she brought her A-game last time they worked together.
Sharon Stone has an A-game?
Jane Rosenthal has badly damaged Robert DeNiro’s career by putting him in one bad film after another. She collects her producing fee and slice of the gross and pushes Bob into bad Avi-Lerner-low-budget-bombs that have robbed him of both his respect and his audience.
The horror stories about Jane at Universal are legendary which is why Uni dropped their deal with Tribeca. Paramount also had many problems with her.
Bob…just walk away from her.
was this posted by someone at endeavor with a bruised ego? it sure sounds like it
Take another look dear BOB has such over-inflated sense of self people no longer fit in the room with him. He is arrogant and has the personality of a turnip. Unless he deems them worthy talking to us lowly creatures is beneath him. Jane is no charmer but she doesn’t talk him into any role. He leads a ridiculously extravagant lifestyle and foists his demands on anyone foolish enough to pay for the jets, five star hotels. . . Is he good actor? He is a great actor. But beneath he is nothing.
More of the same from the same guys. How different does anybody think the finished product would be from Goodfellas? Casino? Maybe Scorsese is the only director DeNiro will let direct him. Maybe the same for Pacino.
But c’mon – another mob movie from Scorsese? Yawn…
Yay! Let’s hear if for another Mob film with De Niro and Scorsese. BORING!!!!
Counting down to BOARDWALK EMPIRE, but this – I would just love to see this film.
So Jane Doe, let me get this straight….DeNiro’s a complete idiot who needs Rosenthal to tell him what to do. Really? He’s just a puppet stringed up to Jane? Really?
Now let’s add the best of the British gangster actors (Ray Winstone, Bob Hoskins) and make an epic with the American Mafia vs. British “Firm”.
Yeah, Mr. Jeff, this movie will be made by a bunch of film legends ALL over 50.
What picture are you looking forward to ?
The next installment in the Twilight Saga ?
Highly important book that should not be made into a dumb Hollywood movie. Sheeran did the Jimmy Hoffa hit–killing his close friend on behalf of more powerful close friends.
He also confirms, having supplied rifles to mafia/anti-Castro-linked shooter teams, that Oswald was not JFK’s assassin.
As if there’s any real doubt…
Set builders, rejoice! Extra work guaranteed what with the amount of scenery those two little guys chew.
I really hope Scorsese gets to make “Silence”. I’ve been hearing about this passion project for years, and I assume with his years with DiCaprio, he’s cashed in enough good will to get one movie made that that he really cares about (I don’t think he’s been emotionally invested in any movie he’s made since GONY – everything has been of the “one for them” variety). He can go back and make another mob movie if he likes, but I’d love to see him do another movie about religious transcendence, esp. with DDL.
Love it…love it…love it..!
Been waiting a long time for Pacino and Scorsese to work together, so it would be a dream come true.
Who cares if it’s another mob movie. One day Marty ain’t gonna be around, and you’ll all be sorry for it.
Oh please, please let this happen.
I love the post above: “How different does anybody think the finished product would be from Goodfellas? Casino?”
If it is one tenth as good as Goodfellas or Raging Bull or close to Casino this film will be better than any film put out in the last wretched decade of mediocrity.
I used to love Scorsese but i’ve been waiting for 15 years for him to make another great film. Finally he looks like he might drop pumpkin-head DiCaprio and go back to the greatest living actor, Robert DeNiro. DeNiro hasn’t delivered a dynamite turn since 1997 and Scorsese can get him his mojo back. Pacino with Scorsese? Hell, yeah! Pacino hasn’t given a great performance in cinemas since 2002. Add Pesci, finally back on screens after his hiatus, and you’ve got potential gold.
This could finally give DeNiro and Pacino the chance to show why the are the greatest to all the kids that only judge them on the past decade and a chance for Scorsese to make up for the DiCaprio years.
Paramount you have to make this happen.
YEAH! Give’em the money! I want to see these guys at their best on what they do the best, MOVIES. I want to see that movie, not some more stupid gay vampires with feelings!!
Scorsese directing a 3D movie?
What the … ?
So sad that the Italian community rejoices in such scumbag behavior as portrayed in these mob movies. Bunch of followers….
So sad that the WASP community rejoices in such scumbag behavior as portrayed in these Wall Street movies. Bunch of followers….
These three are a perfect combination for any mob film, keep your fingers crossed that everything works out..
There has to be a part in this movie for Tony sirico (paulie walnnuts)
Yes. Love it. Also, Frank Vincent and Vince Curatola. I want this to be like a premium grade mob epic fever dream. I want my eyes to be popping from start to finish. Waiter #3 should be a name. Marty can do it. Get ’em to work for scale. Lord knows Steve Schirripa would be down for it.
i have heard that Bob DeNiro and James Gandolfini want to do a project together. This could be the one.
Blockbuster . This story is itching 2 be told.. How many people even know who Russ BUFALINO was!! Of course Scorcese would direct it!! Just tell them “what it is”. I hope he does the screenplay justice.
OK – here’s the script from trailer:
In a world where 70 year old actors need to recapture their past glories, comes another mob movie by Martin Scorsese, “The Irishman”.
Starring:
Al Pacino as Al Pacino
Joe Pesci as Joe Pesci
Robert Deniro as Robert Deniro
Mahahaha. The best comment on here.
Everybody in this is SO far past their glory days.
“Those days are gone forever,
I should just let them go.”
Scorsese brings the goods when working with DeNiro and Pesci, and for Pacino to join the party, it would seem like Francis Coppola would want something like this to resurrect him. Odd, that Marty can continue to crank out these, and Coppola won’t try it again…
As for an Scorsese-DeNiro-Pacino gangster film being “boring”, when is human depravity, betrayal, sex, money and aggravated violence considered boring? If you don’t like the lens that it’s focused through, you can always consider why no political or financial world drama — which covers the same territory — resonates like a gangster film does? We’re American, we’re anti-establishment at heart!