Review The Irishman (2018)

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A mob hitman recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.






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Filming Begins On Scorsese’s “Irishman”


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A photo sent in to Bowery Boogie has confirmed that filming has begun on Martin Scorsese’s new Netflix original feature “The Irishman”.

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel and Joe Pesci star in the film about Frank Sheeran, a mob hitman allegedly involved in the death Jimmy Hoffa. The shoot this week apparently took place around New York’s Orchard St (near Broome St).

Along with this being Pacino’s first film with Scorsese, the movie will notably use digital effects to de-age De Niro as it charts Sheeran’s life over a long period. Filming is expected to continue through December ahead of a release on Netflix sometime in late 2018.
 

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Stephen Graham has been set to play a key role of Genovese mob head Tony ‘Pro’ Provenzano in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” film.

Provenzano was a teamster who rose into the top ranks of organized crime. He was considered a top associate of Jimmy Hoffa during the 1970s and was believed to have played a part in Hoffa’s disappearance.
 

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The Irishman
Director: Martin Scorsese (“Goodfellas,” “Silence”)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin
Details: It’s not clear if this will make it to a 2018 debut for awards consideration, or more likely be held until 2019, but either way there’s few projects in the works right now more anticipated than this long-gestating adaptation of the non-fiction crime book “I Heard You Paint Houses”. Scorsese, coming off the beautiful but divisive “Silence,” returns to more familiar territory here and enlisted not just a reunion of Pacino & DeNiro but also managed to coax the mostly retired Joe Pesci to work with him again on the film penned by Steve Zaillian (“Schindler’s List”).

The story deals with union official and mobster Frank Sheeran who claims to have been involved in the death of Jimmy Hoffa. Budgeted at over $100 million, thanks in part to using CGI de-ageing to let his actors play their characters in their twenties and thirties, this isn’t just Netflix’s most expensive film but easily their biggest go at a film with serious awards potential. People are holding out hope it’ll somehow get a theatrical run, but either way this will be a juggernaut of a movie whenever it launches.
 

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Scorsese’s “Irishman” Will Go Theatrical


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Robert De Niro appeared at the Marrakech Film Festival this week and confirmed that streaming giant Netflix would handle Martin Scorsese’s new film “The Irishman” the “way it should be”.

Based on Charles Brandt’s book “I Heard You Paint Houses,” this will mark the ninth collaboration between De Niro and Scorsese and stars De Niro as Frank Sheehan, a labor union official and mob hitman with ties to the death of Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). Anna Paquin, Bobby Cannavale, and Joe Pesci co-star.

Part of the production process includes ageing some of the characters down digitally by up to five decades, which takes up a big part of the film’s $140 million budget. It’s a costly film and there’s a demand to see it on the big screen. De Niro says:

“We’ve talked about it with Netflix. They are going to do a presentation of our film the way it should be, in a theater, in certain venues, the best theatrical venues there can be. How they resolve it is, in the beginning, they will show it on the big screen, we’re talking about big venues where it would play, where it should play, and what happens after that I’m not sure.”

The comments come as Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” is in the midst of an exclusive theatrical run. Because it’s still very limited in the number of cinemas it is showing at, the push by critics and fans who say “it can only be seen on a big screen” has been met with a backlash on social media as an example of pure film snobbery.

“The Irishman” wrapped filming in March and is slated to premiere in the second half of 2019.
 

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Few projects in the works right now are more anticipated than this long-gestating adaptation. Scorsese, coming off the beautiful but divisive “Silence,” returns to more familiar territory here and assembles not just a reunion of Pacino & DeNiro but also manages to coax the mostly retired Joe Pesci to work with him again on the film penned by Steve Zaillian (“Schindler’s List”). The story deals with union official and mobster Frank Sheeran who claims to have been involved in the death of Jimmy Hoffa. Budgeted at over $150 million, thanks in part to using CGI de-aging to let his actors play their characters in their twenties and thirties, this isn’t just Netflix’s most expensive film but easily their most ambitious go at a film with serious awards potential.
 
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