Martin Scorsese and his team on the forthcoming The Irishman are apparently looking to use the latest technology to de-age Robert De Niro in post-production on the $100 million movie.
The film’s producer Gaston Pavlovich spoke to Cinema Blend about the project, which is starting to sound really rather intriguing the more we hear about it.
“Well it’s an extraordinary technology that we’ve been looking at. You don’t use prosthetics, make-up, they have acting and the technology is able to have them go through different time ages without the prosthetics. So we’ve seen some tests and it looks extraordinary.”
Pavolovich continued, “We were able to film Bob and just do a scene, and we saw it come down to when he was like 20, 40, 60, so we’re looking forward to that, from that point of view, for The Irishman … Imagine seeing what De Niro looked like in The Godfather 2 days, that’s pretty much how you’re going to see him again.”
We first heard about The Irishman, which is based on the bestseller ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’, when it sold distribution rights for a whopping $50 million in Cannes. Al Pacino and possibly Joe Pesci will also star in the film, which should start production in 2017.
