Goodfellas, The Godfather Part II, Heat, Raging Bull, Mean Streets and Casino.
Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, and director Martin Scorsese (all Oscar winners) might be teaming up for a mob movie. Ladies and gentlemen, I can say without hyperbole that this is going to be the greatest movie ever made about anything ever.
Pacino and Pesci are reportedly “circling” a film that De Niro and Scorsese have been preparing for several years called The Irishman about mob hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran who claims to have killed Jimmy Hoffa and many others. Earlier this year, De Niro spoke at the Tribeca Film Festvial about the ambitious idea he and Scorsese had to make the film:
We have a more ambitious idea, hopefully, to make it a two-part type of film or two films…It’s an idea that came about from Eric Roth to combine these movies using the footage from ‘Paint Houses’ to do another kind of a [film that is] reminiscent of a kind of ‘8 1/2,’ ‘La Dolce Vita,’ [a] certain kind of biographical, semi-biographical type of Hollywood movie — a director and the actor — based on things Marty and I have experienced and kind of overlapping them.
Well whatever the hell that means, this project is going to be a few years out (if it happens) as Scorsese is currently working on his 3D family film Hugo Cabret [see here] and would probably make Silence after that, a story of Jesuits who face danger and persecution as they try to spread Christianity in 17th century Japan, which isn’t appearing on IMDB anymore. So what does it all mean? Let’s get excited anyways because all four of these names were in a post about a potential mob movie.
Tags: al pacino, joe pesci, martin scorsese, robert de niro
