Some big news broke at the Cannes over the weekend that Martin Scorsese‘s planned film The Irishman, a mobster movie that has got Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, and Harvey Keitel all attached, has had a whopping $50 million deal go on the table for its international distribution rights.
According to a couple of the trades, the deal was set by STX Entertainment for the mammoth $100 million budgeted movie, which could be Scorsese’s next project following Silence, which will be released later in the year.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, De Niro will play ‘Frank Sheeran, a high-ranking Teamsters official with ties to the Bufalino crime family. Shortly before his death in 2003, Sheeran confessed that he killed fellow Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa, whose body has never been found. He also claimed that it was Hoffa who wanted John F. Kennedy killed.’
Steve Zaillian wrote the screenplay for The Irishman, which is based on Charles Brandt’s best-selling book I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa.
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