Following the release of his Oscar-nominated film, "Silence," Martin Scorsese is going back old school as the director reunites with Robert De Niro for the movie, "The Irishman." being released by Netflix. The project, which takes on a gangster-centric narrative, will boast a star-studded cast including Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, and Harvey Keitel.
"The Irishman" will be the ninth time that Scorsese and De Niro collaborated all throughout the years. And basing from the past projects that they have worked on together, it is highly possible that the upcoming film is once again a classic in the making.
Pesci and Keitel have both worked with Pacino before in "The Goodfellas" and "Mean Streets" respectively. Interestingly, both of the aforementioned movies also starred in De Niro. However, the "The Irishman" will be the first film that Academy Award-winning director will collaborate with Pacino although he reveals that they have been trying to push through with a project since 1971. The 1993 Oscars Best Actor winner however already worked with De Niro before in Francis Ford Coppola's classic, "The Godfather Part II."
Not much is known as of yet in terms of the specifics of "The Irishman," but it will be a film mainly revolving around the dangerous lives of mobsters, which is the kind of sub-genre that Scorsese thrives in. However, despite making a couple of similar projects during his decorated career, he reiterated in a chat with Variety that this new one feels a very different way which will tackle "what it means to get back into that world."
In the middle of the conversation, Scorsese also opened up about the foiled Frank Sinatra project that he was attached to in a long time. Just last month, the 74-year-old filmmaker revealed that he is giving up on the project, at least right now, as the estate of "Ol' Blue Eyes" remains to be against its production.
"I'm sad about the Sinatra one," Scorsese admitted. But says that shall any new development happens, he would be on the negotiation table, in no time. The untitled flick was rumored to star Leonardo DiCaprio as the iconic standard singer. Aside from Sinatra, the veteran director also expressed his desire to make a biopic on Sinatra's "Rat Pack" co-member, Dean Martin.
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