How Martin Scorsese brought together (and de-aged) three septuagenarian legends for the mobster film a decade in the making TheIrishman
In 2013, in a banquet room over the Tribeca Grill in New York, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and a handful of other actors gathered for an intimate reading of thescript in front of potential backers. At the time, De Niro and Scorsese had been trying to get the movie made for four years, and it would be another six before the mobster film finally made it to theaters.
Switching projects was a risky move. But De Niro connected with a wistfulness in the Brandt book, in which Sheeran is telling his story as an 82-year-old looking back on his life. "The whole story reflects how we are getting older, and that feels right," says De Niro. "We're getting closer to that time, if you will."for Scorsese, finished a first draft in 2009, and early on it was clear this was going to be a different type of mob movie for the director.
Among the early challenges was luring Pesci to the project. The actor at first assumed Scorsese wanted him to play yet another flamboyant, quick-tempered gangster, a prospect that didn't pose enough interest to pull him back from a comfortable life of playing golf and singing jazz under his pseudonym, Joe Doggs. "There was a lot of persuasion," Scorsese says. "If we're going to come together again, it's got to be something that could be a change for him.
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