Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’: De Niro, Pacino reunite

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunite — and it looks like they’ve shed years off their faces in the first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s CG-enhanced mob movie.”

Netflix’s true-crime story, which will open this fall’s New York Film Festival, stars De Niro as a labor union leader and mafia hitman Frank Sheeran. Pacino plays Jimmy Hoffa, the former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters who went missing in 1975. Hoffa’s body was never found and his fate was speculated about for decades.

The trailer suggests a decade-spanning saga that covers Hoffa’s rise as leader of the Teamsters, Sheeran’s participation in hits for the Bufalino crime family as well as the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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The film, first greenlit three years ago, uses digital technology to de-age seventysomething stars De Niro and Pacino, as well as co-star Joe Pesci. Co-stars include Anna Paquin, Bobby Cannavale and Ray Romano.

It’s the third time De Niro and Pacino have shared the screen, following 1995’s “Heat” and 2008’s “Righteous Kill.” (They also appeared, though not together, in “The Godfather, Part 2.”)

“The Irishman” marks DeNiro’s ninth time working with Martin Scorsese; their previous collaborations include “Mean Streets,” “Taxi Driver,” “New York, New York,” “Raging Bull,” “The King of Comedy,” “Goodfellas,” “Cape Fear” and “Casino.” It’s the first time that Scorsese has directed Pacino.

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Screenwriter Steven Zaillian adapted Charles Brandt’s 2003 Sheeran biography “I Heard You Paint Houses.” The title refers to the first words Hoffa ever spoke to Sheeran, “paint” being a euphemism for blood that is splattered on walls and floors after a murder. According to Brandt, Sheeran had confessed to killing Hoffa and carrying out two dozen other hits for the mob.

The 2019 New York Film Festival will open with the world premiere of “The Irishman.”

Netflix will release “The Irishman” in theaters on November 27, followed by a streaming launch on the service.

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