Scorsese & De Niro again - TAXI DRIVER sequel? No way
From a Reuters piece on Shutter Island, quoting Martin Scorsese at the Berlin Film Festival two days ago;
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"Bob De Niro (and I) are talking about something that has to do with that world...There's no doubt about that. We're working on something like that, but it's from the vantage point of older men looking back, none of this running around stuff.""that world" apparently refers to the gangster/mobster pic, a genre which was home to their last director/actor partnership - Casino in 95'. I know for a while there Marty was interested in directing I Heard You Paint Houses with De Niro, an adaptation of Charles Brandt's true crime book and scripted for the screen by Steve Zaillian (American Gangster, Gangs of New York) about Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran - a former labor union official who was accused of having links to organized crime and being a hitman responsible for 25 murders - including that of Jimmy Hoffa. We haven't heard any developments on that for a LOOOOONG time though. The Reuters piece comes after what I can only think is a bullshit report from Copenhagen film magazine Ekko that claims Scorsese is to collaborate with Lars Von Trier (Anti-Christ) to make a Taxi Driver remake with Robert De Niro reprising the role of Travis Bickle, at the age of 66! I guess, they mean "spiritual sequel" rather than remake but anyway, the story still sounds garbage. The news supposedly came out of the Berlin Film Festival where Von Trier/Scorsese have begun discussions and "an official announcement would be made soon", allegedly. British tube freebie newspaper Metro would later follow up with a fluff version of the story.