"ITS
GOODFELLAS MEETS
CASINO MEATS
HEAT...."
From Deadline.com's Mike Fleming
It's Goodfellas meets Casino meets Heat. So if you're a fan of those
great crime movies, get ready: I'm told Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are
now circling The Irishman, the mob drama that Martin Scorsese and
Robert De Niro have been working on together based on the exploits of
mob hitman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran as chronicled in the book I
Heard You Paint Houses. The pic's being developed at Paramount by De
Niro and Jane Rosenthal's Tribeca Productions.
Pacino has worked with De Niro in the Michael Mann-directed classic
Heat, as well as Righteous Kill. Pesci and De Niro of course teamed
with Scorsese on Goodfellas, Casino and Raging Bull. Steve Zaillian
wrote the script.
Right now, Scorsese's off directing the 3D Hugh Cabret for GK Films,
and this is one of a couple pictures he's considering next. Others
include Silence, based on the Shusako Endo novel. Scorsese and GK
Films nearly had the pic together with Benicio Del Toro, Daniel Day-
Lewis and Gabriel Garcia Bernal in the Jay Cocks-scripted saga of
Jesuits who face danger as they preach Christianity and try to find
their mentor in 17th Century Japan. Scorsese will be in New York
Wednesday as HBO premieres the pilot he directed for Boardwalk Empire,
