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Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro team up for “The Irishman”

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DARA KELLY,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Monday, December 27, 2010, 7:30 AM
Updated Monday, December 27, 2010, 7:49 AM

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Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro
Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro


Fresh from his box office disappointment with "Little Fockers,” Robert De Niro will team up with Martin Scorsese in yet another Irish-themed movie for the acclaimed director.

Scorsese’s recent films have included “The Departed” about Irish cops and corruption in Boston, “Gangs of New York” about the Irish in Civil War-era New York City, and now “the Irishman” about an Irish mafia hit man.

The film is based on the book “I Heard You Paint Houses” by former prosecutor and Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware Charles Brandt, which told of the exploits of Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, a mob hitman who confessed to Brandt that he killed Jimmy Hoffa. The story will be adapted for the screen by Steve Zallian, who also worked with Scorsese on “Gangs of New York.”

“The Irishman” will mark the ninth time Scorsese and De Niro have teamed up. The two have worked together in such films as “Mean Streets,” “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” and “Goodfellas.”

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MicheleKellyG | Dec 28, 2010, 08:29 AM EST
McNamara31 is right on the money!

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newcanaan | Dec 28, 2010, 06:59 AM EST
Bobby O Niro, i like it.

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Pittsburghkid | Dec 27, 2010, 08:04 PM EST
Like most American De Niro has Irish Blood on his mother's side. Actually the mob is a fiction created by the media to think our government is not corrupt. You see the mob is part of the government. For instant if a person is selling drugs on one street corner, and another person is selling bootleg cigerettes. Who will get busted first? You can get drugs any where, but bootleg cigerettes are hard to find. The reason is that the government will not permit theift of tax dollars on cigerettes. Mobs stories are to pacify the public.

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Searlit | Dec 27, 2010, 05:53 PM EST
Amen, to that Mac.

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McNamara31 | Dec 27, 2010, 04:46 PM EST
Isn’t it about times that there was an epic film produced about the Irish that we can both enjoy and be proud of? I wish Gabriel Bryne would find the right script and cast and produce a film that depicts the real story of the Irish both in Ireland and how they carved their future in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Even the true story of the Famine has never been brought to the screen. What has been brought is the likes of Scorsese and his warped depiction of the Irish in Gangs of New York where he takes his lust for epic violence, and for once giving the Italians a break, places it this time on the saga of the immigrant Irish in New York. And for De Niro I enjoy his acting however anyone who has ever seen an interview where he is asked about his Irish side knows he never lets an opportunity pass to denigrate his Irish side and say he only connects with his Italian heritage. So for these two to be making anything “Irish”, I will surely take a pass.

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Rebelforce | Dec 27, 2010, 02:03 PM EST
If an Irish director ever produced a movie about Mafia criminals called "The Italian" he'd be denounced as a racist bigot by Italian-American anti-defamation groups. Sadly, the Irish don't have any anti-defamation groups to protest so they are fair game in Hollywood and Irish central can be counted on to fawn over any movie Martin Scorsleeze craps out of his hairy hole.

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DuffsMot | Dec 27, 2010, 11:41 AM EST
Apropos of nothing other than accuracy,"Little Fockers" came in #1 at the box office over the holiday weekend. It is true, though, the reviews were dismal. Slainte9, good observation.

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slainte9 | Dec 27, 2010, 10:29 AM EST
Will Scorsese and De Niro do a movie about Dennis Hart Mahan or Patrick Henry O'Rorke, who saved the Union army at Gettysburg. Not likely. Scorsese and De Niro are in the business of defaming the Irish.

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