Scorsese and De Niro Reteam to ‘Paint Houses’
Martin Scorsese is set to direct Robert De Niro in an adaptation of the book I Heard You Paint Houses about Frank Sheeran, the mob assassin who claimed to have murdered Jimmy Hoffa.
“Painting Houses” is slang for a mob hit referring to the blood and goo splattered on walls.
No word yet on where this fits in to the eight or nine projects in development that have Scorsese’s name attached to them, but Steve Zaillian (Schindler’s List) has just been hired to write the screenplay.
Scorsese’s Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio hits theaters next October while De Niro will be seen next in Everybody’s Fine starring Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale and Drew Barrymore.
Source: Variety
Filed under: Development, News
Tags: I Heard You Paint Houses, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Steve Zaillian
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I love Scorsese mobster flicks … maybe this one’ll be another great one, like ,Goodfellas. One can always hope.
And I love the thought of Shutter Island. Dennis LeHane is a pretty good detective novel writer.
I love Scorsese mobster flicks too, but I was thinking about this time last year I’d really like to see him pursue that Silence movie about Portugese missionaries that has been rumored for a while.
I like to see a guy shifting gears and mixing it up.
However, I’ll be there for this one.
There had been talk about a year and a half ago, I believe, that Scorsese and DeNiro were going to reteam for some other mob killer movie (Frankie Machine, I believe was the title). Sounds like they’re still interested in the general idea even if that project fell through.
I was hoping the trade off for the more commercial Shutter Island would be SIlence, however.
Frankie Machine is now a Michael Mann film, but De Niro is still going to be in it.
As I said to Craig earlier on this subject, I’d like to see Scorsese do something else in his later years, especially now that he’s earned some flexibility with a Best Picture win, but complaining about Scorsese doing a gangster picture is like complaining about Kurosawa doing yet another samurai flick.
In other words, I’m already looking forward to this one.
“complaining about Scorsese doing a gangster picture is like complaining about Kurosawa doing yet another samurai flick.”
Love that!
Did I mention this film professor I had?
Ha, forget it.
I’m picketing your film professor, Alexander, for being insensitive to samurai films.
Definitely a positive collaboration here. So is everyone really OK with just looking the other way at movies like Righteous Kill and pretending they never happened? Nobody saw it, of course, including me, but isn’t it just a complete waste of time. Maybe he should spend more time focusing on directing projects and in between more selectively acting in movies like Houses. The Good Shepard did little for me, but A Bronx Tale was fantastic.
I liked The Good Shepard quite a bit. Very slow and deliberate, but rewarding I think.
I do choose to pretend Righteous Kill never happened, though because of films like that, I’m no longer automatically interested in a De Niro project just because he’s in it. If he’s working with Scorsese, that’s another story.
Yeah, Danny…
A BRONX TALE WAS fantastic.
How come no one ever talks about that movie any more?
If De Niro’s dragging Scorsese down into his pit of mediocrity, I might lose it. Our greatest living actor hasn’t done anything decent since Ronin.
This sounds like the the two of them wanted to work together again and the reps could only sell it if the words mob or gangster were in the pitch.
Upon further research, I see Zaillian has been drafted. Well, there goes the neighborhood. What the F- is Nick Pileggi doing?
I’d second your estimation of De Niro’s post Ronin-career there, roman, but I’m hoping that working with Scorsese will draw something more out of him than his usual shtick. I just saw Godfather II and Heat again recently, so I’m praying for something more from him.
But I trust Scorsese to do good work regardless.
Here’s hoping Scorsese can draw out renewed depth and power from De Niro. Here’s to Zaillain’s newest literary adaptation being better than All the King’s Men and the so-so American Gangster.
I agree about wanting to see Scorsese’s take on Silence already. Maybe he has to push through a few more genre pics before he can get the cast and funding he needs. That’s fine. But for all the samurai flicks Kurosawa directed, he still made time for films like Ikiru and The Bad Sleep Well.
I would also rather see the Silence project, and you’d think an Oscar and his highest gross ever would be enough to make it happen. Regardless, every movie Scorsese makes, I’m there for.
I’m also a fan of The Good Shepherd.
I would imagine the only thing stopping Scorsese from doing Silence is Scorsese. That’s just a guess though.
Personally, I’m just kind of hoping this, if it makes it out of development, doesn’t push back the Teddy biopic that Scorsese’s also attached to.
If Scorsese and DiCaprio wait about ten more years, the actor just might be right for Theodore Roosevelt.
I agree with you, Craig; Scorsese could most likely make Silence his next film if he really wanted to. I hope it’s coming sooner than later, at least.
Yeah, while I absolutely love the idea of the Roosevelt movie, I don’t know if Leo’s the right guy for the role. Even aged 10 years, he’s still about 50 pounds too small, and while I like him as an actor, it just seems like a round peg in a square hold in that role.
Dream casting would probably be PSH for the role, but at this point, I just want the story told on the big screen.
Wow…PSH. Interesting idea. Of course, I’d pay to see him reading the phone book.
I’m in agreement with that sentiment, Michael. DiCaprio would need to hit the steak and weights hard to properly represent Teddy. DiCaprio is apparently 5′11″ while Teddy was, judging by most sources, around 5′8″ or so, but Teddy also supposedly weighed over 200 pounds.
I love Philip Seymour Hoffman. What a transformation that would be!