Martin Scorsese and De Niro Together Again

Thanks to Kevin for the tip that Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro, two of cinema’s best collaborators are teaming up again for The Irishman, a mob drama.

Screencrave selects quotes from DeNiro on the potential film:

“It’s based on a book called I Heard You Paint Houses. It’s a very simple, terrific story about [mobster Frank Sheeran], who supposedly killed [Jimmy] Hoffa and Joe Gallo and so on,” De Niro said.

We have a more ambitious idea, hopefully, to make it a two-part type of film or two films,” he continued. “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.”

Sounds epic indeed. Of the films DeNiro and Scorsese made together, my favorites remain, in order of preference – numbers 1 and 2 switch depending on mood:

1. Taxi Driver
2. Raging Bull
3. The King of Comedy
4. Mean Streets
5. Goodfellas
6. Cape Fear

I think Daniel Day Lewis’ best with The Man would be Age of Innocence and that Leonardo DiCaprio’s best would have to be The Departed. The Aviator second. Probably Shutter Island 3.¬† Not a big Gangs of New York fan in the final analysis.

“Here’s to Travis Bickle and here’s to Johnny Boy…”