As you may have read recently, Martin Scorsese is about to start shooting his $100 million true story The Irishman later this year, a film which will reunite him with Robert De Niro for a gangster opus spanning a number of decades.
The film will be based on Charles Brandt’s ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’ and it will also star Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and Bobby Cannavale. Although it is a crime movie, it sounds like the film will be very different to Scorsese’s previous movies Goodfellas and Casino. He revealed all to The Independent.
“I think this is different, I think it is. I admit that there are – you know, Goodfellas and Casino have a certain style that I created for them – it’s on the page in the script actually,” he said.
“Putting Goodfellas together was almost like an afterthought, at times I was kind of rushing, I felt I’d already done it because I’d played it all out in terms of the camera moves and the editing and that sort of thing. The style of the picture, the cuts, the freeze-frames, all of this was planned way in advance, but here it’s a little different. The people are also older in The Irishman, it’s certainly more about looking back, a retrospective so to speak of a man’s life and the choices that he’s had to make.”
Interesting. The Irishman will revolve around the life of Frank Sheeran, the guy who allegedly killed Jimmy Hoffa.
We’re hearing that the film will go into production this summer for a release on Netflix and in cinemas in August 2019. More as we get it.
