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.