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Scorsese and DeNiro set to Paint Houses?

October 2nd, 2008 by Scott Marks

Scorsese and DeNiro last teamed on “Casino” (1995)

If Paramount pictures has its way, Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro will return to a life of crime.

Steve Zaillian (Schindler’s List, Gangs of New York) has been hired to adapt Charles Brandt’s I Heard You Paint Houses, the story of  Frankie “the Irishman” Sheeran, a mob enforcer rumored to have been responsible for the murder of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. According to Variety that the film “will be produced by Scorsese and Tribeca partners De Niro and Jane Rosenthal. Project landed at Paramount through the overall deal that the studio has with Scorsese’s Sikelia Prods.”

The title refers to mob hitmen who paint walls with their victims’ blood. Before his death in 2003, Sheeran confessed to Brandt that he carried out orders from mob boss Russell Bufalino to kill and dismember Hoffa.

Scorsese is currently wrapping up Ashecliffe, an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island which is scheduled to be released exactly one year from today’s date. According to imdb.com, Marty is also slated to direct a documentary on George Harrison in addition to Silence, a tale of two Jesuit priests on an evangelical mission in 17th century Japan, and a biopic of Teddy Roosevelt. Variety mentions two more projects, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Long Play. DeNiro just finished work on Everybody’s Fine and is rumored to appear in Street of Dreams and Frankie Machine as well as the hotly anticipated video game adaptation of Michael Mann’s Heat. The good news is that DeNiro finally does some serious acting in Barry Levinson’s soon to be released What Just Happened?

With Marty riding high on his recent best director Oscar, it’s DeNiro (The Good Shepherd, Stardust, RIghteous Kill) who desperately needs a hit.

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