Tuesday, November 25, 2008

De Niro Confirms He Will Star In New Scorsese Film

Robert De Niro has confirmed that he is planning to work once again with Martin Scorsese. As previously reported it was already expected De Niro wold be on board but no confirmation had been made.

Speaking at a press conference in London for 'What Just Happened', De Niro talked about working with his friend, director Scorsese on 'I Heard you Paint Houses'.
When asked by RTÉ.ie to confirm the rumours, he said: "Yes, that's something that Marty and I, we want to do very much.

"Steve Zaillian is at this point writing the script and we have an even more ambitious plan of doing another movie connected to it, in some way, with Eric Roth hopefully writing that script. So yeah, that's very much planned to be done."
Based on the life of former hit man, Frank 'The Irish Man' Sheeran, 'I Heard you Paint Houses' is scheduled for release in 2011.