Yahoo News Goodfellas cast reunite on set of The Irishman
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci – the trio behind some of Hollywood's greatest ever gangster films – have officially reunited on set of The Irishman.
Filming has started in New York City, and Scorsese recently told The Independent that the new Netflix film is very different to any of the other gangster epics he has made before.
"This is different, I think it is," Scorsese said. "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.
"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."
He added: "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."
Back in 2015, De Niro confirmed to Digital Spy that the long-planned Scorsese collaboration was happening, despite the name being I Heard You Paint Houses back then.
"We are doing it... We should be doing it sometime next year," he told us then. "We're slowly, slowly getting it in place."
Besides Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, Godfather legend Al Pacino will also star in the movie adaption of Charles Brandt's 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, which reportedly has a budget of over $100 million.
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The Irishman is a gangster drama which follows a tough mob hitman (De Niro) who's apparently carried out over 25 murders, and Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino), a Teamster labor union chief who famously went missing during the summer of 1975.
Pesci's role will be Mafia boss Russell Bufalino, who is suspected of helping Hoffa disappear.
The Irishman also stars Jack Huston, Bobby Canna, and Ray Romano.
And if that cast plus Scorsese directing wasn't enough, Oscar-winning Schindler's List writer Steve Zaillian is behind the script.
The Irishman is set to be released in 2019.
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