Pacino and De Niro were last seen together in Righteous Kill. PHOTO: FILE
STX has won a fierce bidding war to handle foreign rights and will shop the project to international buyers gathered at Cannes. Fabrica de Cine is fully financing the $100 million movie, with Paramount handling American distribution duties. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the STX deal is valued at $50 million.
The Irishman reunites Scorsese with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and marks his first film with Al Pacino. De Niro will play Frank Sheeran, a high-ranking Teamsters official with ties to the Bufalino crime family. Shortly before his death in 2003, Sheeran confessed that he killed fellow Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa, whose body has never been found. He also claimed that it was Hoffa who wanted John F Kennedy killed.
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De Niro and Pacino have been attached to star in The Irishman for years. The movie has finally received a start date now that the financing has been decided, with Scorsese set to start shooting in January following the release of his upcoming passion project, Silence.
Gangs of New York writer Steve Zaillian wrote the script for The Irishman, based on Charles Brandt’s best-selling book I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank ‘The Irishman’ Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 18th, 2016.
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