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From The Never-Gonna-Happen Files, Pacino And Pesci May Join De Niro And Scorsese For THE IRISHMAN!
Beaks here...
Deadline's Michael Fleming is reporting that Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are "circling" what could potentially be Martin Scorsese's next film, THE IRISHMAN. Based on the non-fiction I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES by Charles Brandt, the movie would center on the life and times of mob hit man Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, who, among many other alleged crimes, may have had a hand in the murder of Jimmy Hoffa. It appears THE IRISHMAN would also star Robert De Niro, who is currently developing the film with his Tribeca Productions partner Jane Rosenthal for Paramount.
De Niro, Pacino, Pesce, and Scorsese? With a screenplay by Steve Zaillian? It'll never happen.
I'm going to remain skeptical about this because I would love nothing more than to see these gentlemen making a mob movie together - especially if the idea of doing a complementary, Fellini-esque second movie is still in play. In case you missed the news from earlier this year, here's how De Niro explained the project to MTV...
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.
I know Scorsese would really like to make SILENCE, based on the Shusako Endo book about Jesuits in 17th Century Japan - and I'd love to see that, too. But this two-tiered approach to THE IRISHMAN sounds like movie buff heaven. Who wouldn't want to see this?
Not to worry, though, 'cuz it'll never happen. Ever.
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..you stuttering prick ya!..gotta love Joe Pesci
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The cookie told me so
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Talk about movie heaven.
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Sept. 13, 2010, 5:37 p.m. CST
Why Haven't DeNiro and Scorcese been making movies together?
by Daytripper69
Has there been some kind of falling out that I don't know about? And Scorsese + Pacino is an idea whose time has come...
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Seriously. Just do the exact same scene from Goodfellas again.
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De Niro, Pacino, Pesce, and Scorsese. Maybe it's an ironic title?
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we are like an old married couple. we have a lot of happy memories but we no longer share the marital bed. in other words, deniro and scorsese will never work together again. Marty S dumped deniro and is no working with Leo.
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Sept. 13, 2010, 6:07 p.m. CST
Thank fuck Scorsese is finally dumping DiCaprio
by Turd_Has_Risen_From_The_Grave
And getting back with the old team De Niro and Pesci for one more mob movie. And Pacino too! Please let this happen. <p>The Departed was a cartoon movie and even ol' Jack couldn't save it. It lacked all the rawness of Mean Streets, Goodfellas, and the massively underrated Casino, yet it was being praised left, right and center as if it was the equal of those films. Bullshit. Nothing good has come of Scorsese and Di Caprio's love-in. Di Caprio is a bland mannequin out of his depth in any kind of adult role, and even Inception would have been greatly improved without him. He's a boy trying to do a man's job, even though he's 35.<p>And get Scorsese on Silence, too. That's his dream project. Marty hasn't made a good film since Casino, nor even a daring one since Kundun. Maybe with these projects he'll start to become interesting again.
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...is a bloody masterpiece. That is all.
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DeNiro is half Irish (his mom). And, don't forget that his character in "Goodfellas",Jimmy Conway, was also Irish. The others? Who knows who or what they'll play.<p> Hell, I never though "Italian" when I heard J. Carrol Nash, Burt Lancaster or James Caan either. I believe that's why they refer to it as acting ;-)
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I'd love to see the alleged 4 hour cut of Gangs thats circulating in the bootleg world out there. I was kind of "meh" about that movie when it first came out, but it has really grown in me in the last few years and I consider it a brilliant masterpiece now.
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Sept. 13, 2010, 6:31 p.m. CST
Scorsese lied about the longer cut of Gangs
by Turd_Has_Risen_From_The_Grave
Typical PR bullshit. He said it didn't exist and that he was happy with the existing cut. Don't believe it for a second. No director wants you to think his work has been compromised. But it definitely exists and would probably be a better film, though it still stars Di Crapio which means it's always gonna be less than it could have been.
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and I quote: "De Niro's father was of Italian and Irish descent, and his mother was of German, French, and Dutch ancestry." he's a quarter irish. but who the fuck is counting? just setting the record straight from those mooks who post one line like its out of the fucking constitution and the rest of us should follow.
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I'd LOVE to see another crime film based on real events by Scorsese, De Niro and Pesci (making a trilogy on Goodfellas & Casino), but point one: Scorsese seems to have lost De Niro's phone number (he should have been in The Departed), and two: he is shooting his first 3D movie. Let me repeat that, a 3D fantasy film by Martin Scorsese. The guy who made Taxi Drive is LONG GONE. In his place, we got a post 2003 Spielberg who likes quick cuts.
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Seriously, if this becomes a reality my boner will become so huge that it explodes and I will die. DONT DO IT...FOR MY SAKE!!!!!!
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When his family got to the USA they changed his name from DeNegro to Deniro.
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Sept. 13, 2010, 6:45 p.m. CST
I want to hear DeNiro and Pesci say FUCK and shoot people
by ricarleite2
"You muthafucka you!"
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It has to be one of the slowest, least visual stories I've ever read. I can barely even remember what happens in it; I just retain a few images of peasants eating seaweed or something, people getting tortured and a priest in a kimono. Who would see this movie? I can't see it ever working; it strikes me as a guaranteed failure.
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no idea why but i do...
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Sept. 13, 2010, 6:56 p.m. CST
The Irishman would beat the shit out of The American.
by Doctor_Strangepork
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Sept. 13, 2010, 6:58 p.m. CST
This movie will cost $100 billion dollars to make...
by MrMysteryGuest
if all these guys decide to make this movie together...and throw in DiCaprio and Ray Liotta, and if they feel like it, James Gandolfini, and Clint Eastwood in an extended cameo! Oh, and Robert Redford as an FBI agent. Maybe...
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Sept. 13, 2010, 7:01 p.m. CST
With all those stars, It'll be the Ocean's 11 of crime movies!
by ShabbyBlue
Oh wait...
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The mob is nothing but ass raping homos just like every other fagtastic gang walking the streets. If I could kill them all I would.
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Sept. 13, 2010, 7:14 p.m. CST
SHabby Blue....I felt the same way about Gangs of New York
by Jehovahs_Witness
Wasn't crazy about it at first...but it really grew on me.
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He must be tired of playing golf.
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i remember reading that somewhere but i could be wrong, maybe it was harvey kietel haha
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and thier family friendly lobby groups strangulated hollywood. Pesci wont be able to beat people up and do his pyscho routine ever again.
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Sept. 13, 2010, 7:28 p.m. CST
I want to see a fight to the death between Pesci and Danny DeVit
by Turd_Has_Risen_From_The_Grave
Midgets on the warpath!
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Sept. 13, 2010, 7:30 p.m. CST
Bob Hoskins Vs. Joe Pesci Vs. Danny DeVito
by Turd_Has_Risen_From_The_Grave
One armed with a broken whiskey bottle, one with a pen, and one with, er...Super Mario's plunger.
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...Harvey Keitel and new leading man/boy Leo Di Caprio and you have the ultimate cast for a new Scorsese gangster flick. I'm crossing my fingers that this news comes to fruition.
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am i the only one who wants a real Home Alone 3? the wet bandits could go and try to molest (err i mean "scare while burglarizing") Kevins new adopted son... cuz ya know, Kevin turns out to be gay... it writes itself!
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that these guys stopped making good movies quite a while ago. Pacino and DeNiro have been playing it safe for well over a decade and haven't pushed themselves. Anybody see Righteous Kill? What a waste. They should have chewed up the scenery but there was no chemistry between them at all. Their characters were supposed to be best friends, but it never felt that way. Stupendous disappointment. It would be best if this project never happened, because it will be a letdown. As for Pesci, does anybody really care about him? He plays one character and we've seen it a hundred times. He has the acting range of kelp.
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it's an amazing book, but I just don't know how you sell that to a studio. it would be a 2 hour film about characters questioning god, with like 20 minutes of actually functional plot points.
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Add him in and you got five aces.
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Quit griping about RIGHTEOUS KILL and give WHAT JUST HAPPENED a viewing. He's still a great actor...IF he has the material. If he does that stupid third FOCKERS movie, then he damn well better do the Scorsese movie...cause he'll owe us!
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Forget Pesci, splash the money and get Nicholson in there. He's the best leading actor of the last forty years and the electricity between him and De Niro in The Last Tycoon was electrifying, if under-utilised. And the prospect of him and Pacino in a scene together is mouth-watering.<p>What's that, the story doesn't call for it? Well let them make something else. Let's face it, none of them have too many movies left in them and it's now or never. They need to just bite the bullet and sign on the line that is dotted.
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Sept. 13, 2010, 8:58 p.m. CST
Nicholson wasn't very good in The Departed, though
by Turd_Has_Risen_From_The_Grave
An extremely silly performance. Jack just phones in his persona most of the time now. Now 70's Nicholson - that was an actor.
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Too long to have him out of the game (isn't he also coming out with a movie about him being a pimp in the near future?) And to have DeNiro and Scorcesse working together again? Cinephile heaven! DeCaprio just ain't no DeNiro. I don't hate DeCaprio, I just find he's too pretty to play the tough-guy part. His talent is fantastic, he's a great actor, but I just don't find his pretty-boy looks threatening enough for all the characters Scorcese wants him to play. Departed was an okay movie (I actually rank it below Bringing Out the Dead, though), but they only gave it the Oscar because they f**ked up on the half-dozen other opportunities of cinematic brilliance they had to grant Scorcese an Academy Award for.
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DeNiro, Pacino, Caan, Liotta, Pesci, Ghadolfini, Christopah, Buscemi... who I missing?
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For FUGGEDABOUT IT!!
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... and is consistently good in everything he's done. People just can't handle the fact that he's handsome, talented and rich. I for one would love to see Leo and De Niro reunited under the direction of the man with Hollywood's largest monobrow.
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I am slowly warming to him as an actor. I thought he was way out of his element in Gangs. I thought the movie suffered from the presence of him and Cameron Diaz in it. However, he was so good in The Aviator, solid in the great The Departed (Yes! I said great!), and did possibly the best acting of his career in Shutter Island, although the movie was meh. And he was very good in Inception as well. I'm starting to buy him more, as long as he stays away from attempting South African accents, a la Blood Diamond. Also, I was not too impressed with Casino. Comparing The Departed and Casino, I think The Departed is much better, but neither is as good as Goodfellas.
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Machete? Please.
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i'd pay for a ticket though. at least with scorsese directing, you know it won't be righteous kill 2.
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Dream movie, though...
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Couldn't they do something else?
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Christ, he looks exactly like Santa Clause. What a mess.
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Based on Youngstown/Erie PA mobsters Danny Green and Ray Feritto? Starring Christopher Walken and Ray Stevenson as Danny Greene???
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an noht that shiite yew nuurdz be downing in yur Harry Pottuurr cuups. Sorry just felt like talking like an Irish pirate I suppose
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I wonder if there will be any betrayal in it! Maybe even some shit lines about honor and knowing the rules of the streets. Oooh, one can only hope!
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of sellouts.
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Sept. 14, 2010, 1:07 a.m. CST
"Maybe even some shit lines about honor and knowing the rules of
by TakingScorpiosCalls
hahaha
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Sept. 14, 2010, 1:08 a.m. CST
What happened to Quint's Facebook movie review?
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
It was here earlier. Suspicious.
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is a kiss of death
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He's a decent actor but he can't disappear into roles. Every character he plays become him, while he should be becoming the character. Every single one of his roles is just Leo with a slight variation (and the variation is usually an accent). <p> Leo just doesn't even come close to the brilliance that Pacino and De Niro delivered in their prime. Look at all of the nervous ticks and emotion behind the eyes of Pacino's Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon. Now that is a truly masterful performance. Or how bout how De Niro played a young Vito Corleone in such a brilliantly way that you really believe he's a young Brando. Just amazing. Leo will never match these performances, or even come close. His best performance was actually What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Since he's hit adulthood he's a one-note actor. He's good at his one note, but that's about it.
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Just seeing the title of your post brought a smile to my face. Good stuff lol.
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as his italian father turned into a common garden variety homosexual. "Not that theres anything wrong with that". Also Robby D also played a irish gangster: Jimmy "The Gent" Burke.
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got flushed down the toilet after breakfast.
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Sept. 14, 2010, 2:14 a.m. CST
JACK NICHOLSON IS MY FAVORITE ACTOR!!!FACT!!!
by CreationistTechnophobicManiacs
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Could you PLEASE take that trailer down that keeps auto-playing. Its driving me fucking mental!!!
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Now you've got yourselves a picture!
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Can wait to see the trailer when it comes out!! http://movienews.pipeno.com/
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his name is actually Robert Denidgeridoo. <p>
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His name is actually Roberto Dinero.
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. . . why, exactly, is this such an impossibility?
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And such things don't happen these days.
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that's the best news I heard all day. The Mission meets the Last Samurai, keeping Deniro but loosing Cruise? Wow!
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But hey, Marty can do whatever he likes. I'll still watch anything with his name on it.
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coming up, and not to mention BOARDWALK EMPIRE, it seems like we're gonna be in Marty Heaven for a few more years!
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Sept. 14, 2010, 11:46 a.m. CST
De Niro rather does Fockers and Pacino does Jack & Jill
by Nic_Cages_Real_Hair
With all due respect, gentlemen: SHAME ON YOU BOTH
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Who cares if DeNiro likes black chicks? Personally, I like a little variety, but what's the big deal?
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Mangia!
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Al Pacino put a chunk of kryptonyte in his pocket during the coffee-shop scene in Heat. That would explain his bad movie karma since 1995
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he told me to stop calling me Bobby D in talkbacks or he would feed me my own fuckin balls in front of my kids.
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For the title.
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take that
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Sept. 14, 2010, 3:20 p.m. CST
DeNiro, Pacino, Pesci, Scorsese, Walken, Sorvino, Caan
by TakingScorpiosCalls
coming out Fall 2014: The Movie Too Cool For You To See.
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Sept. 14, 2010, 3:26 p.m. CST
So Deniro/Pacino will be in a movie together for each decade
by TakingScorpiosCalls
Except for the 80s. Sad really, would have loved to see them after their their baby face 70s but before their comeback midlifers slight parodic 90s phase together, during the hotshit coke snorting Tony Montana/Noodles phase. But instead of a crime epic it would be a Conan the Barbarian ripoff with them in saggy tights.
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