Robert De Niro Flirts With the Dream of Working With Martin Scorsese Again

Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese aretwo names that used to come together on screen for more than fifteenyears. From the seventies and up to the mid-nineties, De Niro wasScorsese's lead actor for eight of his movies he made back then, butthen they haven't been working together for the last eighteen years.

“So even though Leonardo DiCaprio has taken my place in Marty’smovies, I’m apparently the go-to guy in handing out the hardware,”De Niro said in a statement before about working with Marty, but nowthe 70-years-old actor said he might be working with his favoritedirector again.Based on a gangster book, De Niro is saying that they have ascript adapted from ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’ “It’sabout a guy [named Frank Sheeran] who is – and I believe the book –says he’s now passed away, but he confessed that he killed [Jimmy]Hoffa and also Joe Gallo over here on Hester Street,” and he willplay the main character.

He also added that Al Pacino and Joe Pesciare in this project. Scorsese was busy doing “ The Wolf of Wall Street” and he'salready engaged in “Silence” his next feature. None of theannounced names by De Niro is officially attached to the upcomingpicture but “I’d never say it if I didn’t really fully have usall, you know, committed,” said the old actor. We certainly hopeso.