68 year old veteran filmmaker
Martin Scorsese is looking to celebrate his life, his friends and his filmography with
The Irishman, a gangster film based on the Charles Brandt novel
I Heard You Paint Houses, which we now know films late next year. It very much looks like this could be his version of
The Expendables and right now he is intent on getting the band back together from his most famous films for one last hurrah. Not only that but he has lured in
Al Pacino, an Icon of gangster cinema that he has surprisingly never worked with before, but his muse
Robert De Niro has famously on multiple occasions. Just when you thought The Irishman couldn't get more nostalgic, it's been reported at
Showbiz411 that
Harvey Keitel - who Scorsese's put on the map in
Mean Streets and
Taxi Driver has contributed to
Steve Zaillian's (American Gangster), De Niro and
Joe Pesci's screenplay and that there's a role for him in the movie also. What a reunion this is proving to be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izcZPwhPXUU What's curious about Kietel's apparent strong involvement in the film is why
Robert De Niro didn't mention the actor to MTV this week when he confirmed the film was happening next year, especially as he has just worked with his great friend on
Little Fockers, where Kietel enjoys a cameo. Maybe Roger Freidman is doing what a lot of journalists do and write about what they think will happen as if it's the truth, but in any event it does seem to be a huge possibility that Kietel could be involved here. Certainly he would fit in with the rest of the cast. You can read more about The Irishman in our previous post
HERE.