The Irishman (titled onscreen as I Heard You Paint Houses) is a 2019 American epic crime film produced and directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Steven Zaillian, based on the 2004 memoir I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt. The film stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci as Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, Jimmy Hoffa, and Russell Bufalino, respectively, and follows Sheeran as he recounts his alleged jobs as a hitman for the Bufalino crime family. It is the ninth feature collaboration between De Niro and Scorsese and their first since 1995's Casino; the fourth film to star both De Niro and Pacino (following The Godfather Part II, Heat, and Righteous Kill); the fifth to star both De Niro and Pesci (following Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America, Goodfellas, and Casino); the first to star both Pacino and Pesci; and the first time Pacino has been directed by Scorsese.
In September 2014, The Irishman was confirmed as Scorsese's next film following Silence (2016). De Niro and Pacino were confirmed that month, as was Pesci, who came out of his unofficial retirement to star after being asked numerous times to take the role. Principal photography began in September 2017 in New York City and in the Mineola and Williston Park sections of Long Island, and wrapped in March 2018. With a production budget of $159 million, it is one of the most expensive films of Scorsese's career.
The Irishman had its world premiere at the 57th New York Film Festival on September 27, 2019 and is scheduled to receive a limited theatrical release on November 1, 2019, followed by digital streaming on Netflix on November 27, 2019. The film received widespread acclaim, with critics highlighting the technical aspects, direction, screenplay, and the performances of De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci. Several critics have referred to the film as being among the finest of Scorsese's career.
Premise
The Irishman is the story of Frank Sheeran, a mob hitman and World War II vet who develops his skills during his service in Italy. Now an old man, he reflects on the events that defined his career as a hitman, particularly the role he played in the disappearance of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, his longtime friend, and his involvement with the Bufalino crime family.[4]
Cast
Robert De Niro as Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran
Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa
Joe Pesci as Russell Bufalino
Bobby Cannavale as Felix "Skinny Razor" DiTullio
Harvey Keitel as Angelo Bruno
Stephen Graham as Anthony Provenzano
Kathrine Narducci as Carrie Bufalino
Domenick Lombardozzi as Anthony Salerno
Anna Paquin as Peggy Sheeran
Sebastian Maniscalco as Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo
Ray Romano as Bill Bufalino
Jeremy Luke as Thomas Andretta
Jesse Plemons as Chuckie O'Brien
Stephanie Kurtzuba as Irene Sheeran
Aleksa Palladino as Mary Sheeran
India Ennenga as Dolores Sheeran
J. C. MacKenzie as Jimmy Neal
Gary Basaraba as Frank Fitzsimmons
Jim Norton as Don Rickles
Larry Romano as Phil Testa
Jake Hoffman as Allen Dorfman
Patrick Gallo as Anthony Giacalone
Barry Primus as Ewing King
Jack Huston as Robert F. Kennedy
Production
Development
Martin Scorsese had long been interested in directing a film adaptation of Charles Brandt's I Heard You Paint Houses, and in casting De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci.[5] The film started its development phase in 2007.[6][7] In July 2009, Brandt received a phone call from De Niro that led to a meeting a month later between the two of them, Scorsese and screenwriter Steven Zaillian.[8] The meeting was supposed to last an hour but ended up lasting four hours. Brandt said that "the material was new to them" and Zaillian already had a script ready, but the additions Brandt required a do-over. To help, Brandt handed over a screenplay of his own. Brandt said, "Zaillian is a great writer, don't get me wrong [...] I wanted to log the material."[8] The new materials and rewrites caused the movie to lose its place in the film release calendar, and Scorsese went on to direct three more films, Hugo (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and Silence (2016), before returning to The Irishman.[8] In September 2014, after years of development hell,[6] Pacino confirmed that the film would be Scorsese's next project after Silence.[9] In October 2015, De Niro stated that the film was still happening and could start filming in 2016 and Zaillian was confirmed as screenwriter.[10][11]
In July 2017, it was reported that the film would be presented as a series of flashbacks of an older Frank Sheeran, depicted as recollecting his many criminal activities over several decades,[12] with De Niro appearing "as young as 24 years and as old as 80."[13] Producer Irwin Winkler defined the project as "the coming together of people that have worked together since we're kids together",[14] while Rosenthal said that "what will surprise you is, as a Scorsese movie, it is a slower movie [...] it is guys looking at themselves through an older perspective."[7]
Pre-production
In July 2017, Pacino and Pesci officially joined the cast, with Ray Romano also joining and Bobby Cannavale and Harvey Keitel in final negotiations.[9] Pesci was offered his role a reported 50 times before agreeing to take part; De Niro played a big part in convincing Pesci to take the role, telling to him "We gotta do this. Who knows if there'll be anything after?"[15] In September 2017, Jack Huston,[16] Stephen Graham,[17] Domenick Lombardozzi, Jeremy Luke, Joseph Russo,[18] Kathrine Narducci,[19] Danny Abeckaser,[20] J. C. MacKenzie, and Craig Vincent[21] joined the cast. In October, Gary Basaraba,[22] Anna Paquin,[23] Welker White,[24] and Jesse Plemons joined the cast of the film. Later, Craig Di Francia and Action Bronson were revealed to have joined the cast.[25][26] Sebastian Maniscalco and Paul Ben-Victor were later revealed as being part of the cast.[27][28]
Filming
Filming was originally set to start in August 2017, in and around New York City,[29][30] and would continue through December 2017.[31][32] Principal photography ended up beginning on September 18, 2017 in New York City and in the Mineola and Williston Park sections of Long Island,[33][34][35] and wrapped on March 5, 2018, for a total of 108 shooting days.[36][15] A posture coach was brought on set to offer tips to De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci on how to comport themselves like much younger men.[15] The picture was shot on 35 mm movie film over 117 different locations, for a total of 319 scenes.[37][15]
Post-production
Industrial Light & Magic and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman handled the effects for the film.[38] In August 2015, Scorsese and De Niro made a test reel by recreating a scene from Goodfellas (1990), to see if the de-aging could work. Scorsese said that "the risk was there, and that was it. We just tried to make the film. After sitting on the couch for ten years [...] we finally had a way."[13] In March 2018, speaking about the de-aging process, Pacino told IndieWire: "I was playing Jimmy Hoffa at the age of 39, they're doing that on a computer [...] we went through all these tests and things [...] someone would come up to me and say, 'You're 39.' [You'd recall] some sort of memory of 39, and your body tries to acclimate to that and think that way. They remind you of it."[39] The film's opening credits features the title I Heard You Paint Houses, the name of the novel on which the picture is based on, while the title The Irishman never appears onscreen.[40]
Financing and budget
In May 2016, Mexican production company Fábrica de Cine had offered $100 million to finance the film, and through that deal Paramount Pictures would retain domestic rights.[41] IM Global was also circling to bid for the film's international sales rights.[41] STX Entertainment bought the international distribution rights to the film for $50 million beating out other studios like Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate, while Fábrica de Cine closed the deal and Paramount retained its domestic rights.[42]
By February 2017, Paramount Pictures had dropped domestic distribution rights for The Irishman following the announcement that Fábrica de Cine would not be financing the film due to its climbing budget. Netflix then bought the film for $105 million and agreed to finance the film's $125 million budget with a release date set for October 2019.[43][44] In March 2018, it was also reported the film's budget had ballooned from $125 million to $140 million, due in large part to the visual effects needed to make De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci appear younger at various points throughout the film.[45] By August of that year, the cost had reportedly risen to as much as $175 million, and by the time post-production had wrapped some publications said it was $200 million.[46][47]
In August 2019, it was reported that the film's official cost was $159 million.[2][3]
Soundtrack
Canadian musician Robbie Robertson supervised the soundtrack.[48] It features both original and existing music tracks.[49]
Release
The Irishman had its world premiere at the 57th New York Film Festival on September 27, 2019.[50] It is scheduled to receive a limited theatrical release on November 1, 2019, followed by digital streaming on Netflix on November 27, 2019.[51]
The film will not play at the theaters owned by AMC, Cinemark, Regal or Cineplex, because the "four week progression to SVOD remains unacceptable to those chains."[51] It was previously reported in February 2019 that Netflix would possibly give the film a wide theatrical release, at the request of Scorsese.[52] The heads of several theater chains, including AMC's Adam Aron, who refused to play Roma the previous November, said they would only be open to playing The Irishman if Netflix "respects the decades old theatrical window, that suggests that movies come to theaters first for a couple of months, and then go to the home."[53]
The Irishman's international premiere was at the Closing Night Gala of the BFI London Film Festival on October 13, 2019. The festival's director Tricia Tuttle said it was an "immense cinephile thrill" to close the event with an "epic of breathtakingly audacious scale and complexity" from "one of the true greats of cinema."[54] The film is also scheduled to have screenings at the following film festivals: Mill Valley,[55][56] Hamptons,[57] Lumière,[58] San Diego,[59] Mumbai,[60] Rome,[61] Philadelphia,[62] Chicago,[63] Tokyo,[64] and Los Cabos.[65] Additionally, from November 1 to December 1, 2019, The Irishman will screen at the Belasco Theatre in New York City, making it the first film to ever screen in the Belasco's 112-year history.[66]
Marketing
The announcement trailer for the film premiered during the 91st Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, 2019.[67] Netflix then released a teaser trailer on July 31, 2019,[68] while the official trailer debuted on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on September 25, 2019
In September 2014, The Irishman was confirmed as Scorsese's next film following Silence (2016). De Niro and Pacino were confirmed that month, as was Pesci, who came out of his unofficial retirement to star after being asked numerous times to take the role. Principal photography began in September 2017 in New York City and in the Mineola and Williston Park sections of Long Island, and wrapped in March 2018. With a production budget of $159 million, it is one of the most expensive films of Scorsese's career.
The Irishman had its world premiere at the 57th New York Film Festival on September 27, 2019 and is scheduled to receive a limited theatrical release on November 1, 2019, followed by digital streaming on Netflix on November 27, 2019. The film received widespread acclaim, with critics highlighting the technical aspects, direction, screenplay, and the performances of De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci. Several critics have referred to the film as being among the finest of Scorsese's career.
Premise
The Irishman is the story of Frank Sheeran, a mob hitman and World War II vet who develops his skills during his service in Italy. Now an old man, he reflects on the events that defined his career as a hitman, particularly the role he played in the disappearance of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, his longtime friend, and his involvement with the Bufalino crime family.[4]
Cast
Robert De Niro as Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran
Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa
Joe Pesci as Russell Bufalino
Bobby Cannavale as Felix "Skinny Razor" DiTullio
Harvey Keitel as Angelo Bruno
Stephen Graham as Anthony Provenzano
Kathrine Narducci as Carrie Bufalino
Domenick Lombardozzi as Anthony Salerno
Anna Paquin as Peggy Sheeran
Sebastian Maniscalco as Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo
Ray Romano as Bill Bufalino
Jeremy Luke as Thomas Andretta
Jesse Plemons as Chuckie O'Brien
Stephanie Kurtzuba as Irene Sheeran
Aleksa Palladino as Mary Sheeran
India Ennenga as Dolores Sheeran
J. C. MacKenzie as Jimmy Neal
Gary Basaraba as Frank Fitzsimmons
Jim Norton as Don Rickles
Larry Romano as Phil Testa
Jake Hoffman as Allen Dorfman
Patrick Gallo as Anthony Giacalone
Barry Primus as Ewing King
Jack Huston as Robert F. Kennedy
Production
Development
Martin Scorsese had long been interested in directing a film adaptation of Charles Brandt's I Heard You Paint Houses, and in casting De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci.[5] The film started its development phase in 2007.[6][7] In July 2009, Brandt received a phone call from De Niro that led to a meeting a month later between the two of them, Scorsese and screenwriter Steven Zaillian.[8] The meeting was supposed to last an hour but ended up lasting four hours. Brandt said that "the material was new to them" and Zaillian already had a script ready, but the additions Brandt required a do-over. To help, Brandt handed over a screenplay of his own. Brandt said, "Zaillian is a great writer, don't get me wrong [...] I wanted to log the material."[8] The new materials and rewrites caused the movie to lose its place in the film release calendar, and Scorsese went on to direct three more films, Hugo (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and Silence (2016), before returning to The Irishman.[8] In September 2014, after years of development hell,[6] Pacino confirmed that the film would be Scorsese's next project after Silence.[9] In October 2015, De Niro stated that the film was still happening and could start filming in 2016 and Zaillian was confirmed as screenwriter.[10][11]
In July 2017, it was reported that the film would be presented as a series of flashbacks of an older Frank Sheeran, depicted as recollecting his many criminal activities over several decades,[12] with De Niro appearing "as young as 24 years and as old as 80."[13] Producer Irwin Winkler defined the project as "the coming together of people that have worked together since we're kids together",[14] while Rosenthal said that "what will surprise you is, as a Scorsese movie, it is a slower movie [...] it is guys looking at themselves through an older perspective."[7]
Pre-production
In July 2017, Pacino and Pesci officially joined the cast, with Ray Romano also joining and Bobby Cannavale and Harvey Keitel in final negotiations.[9] Pesci was offered his role a reported 50 times before agreeing to take part; De Niro played a big part in convincing Pesci to take the role, telling to him "We gotta do this. Who knows if there'll be anything after?"[15] In September 2017, Jack Huston,[16] Stephen Graham,[17] Domenick Lombardozzi, Jeremy Luke, Joseph Russo,[18] Kathrine Narducci,[19] Danny Abeckaser,[20] J. C. MacKenzie, and Craig Vincent[21] joined the cast. In October, Gary Basaraba,[22] Anna Paquin,[23] Welker White,[24] and Jesse Plemons joined the cast of the film. Later, Craig Di Francia and Action Bronson were revealed to have joined the cast.[25][26] Sebastian Maniscalco and Paul Ben-Victor were later revealed as being part of the cast.[27][28]
Filming
Filming was originally set to start in August 2017, in and around New York City,[29][30] and would continue through December 2017.[31][32] Principal photography ended up beginning on September 18, 2017 in New York City and in the Mineola and Williston Park sections of Long Island,[33][34][35] and wrapped on March 5, 2018, for a total of 108 shooting days.[36][15] A posture coach was brought on set to offer tips to De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci on how to comport themselves like much younger men.[15] The picture was shot on 35 mm movie film over 117 different locations, for a total of 319 scenes.[37][15]
Post-production
Industrial Light & Magic and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman handled the effects for the film.[38] In August 2015, Scorsese and De Niro made a test reel by recreating a scene from Goodfellas (1990), to see if the de-aging could work. Scorsese said that "the risk was there, and that was it. We just tried to make the film. After sitting on the couch for ten years [...] we finally had a way."[13] In March 2018, speaking about the de-aging process, Pacino told IndieWire: "I was playing Jimmy Hoffa at the age of 39, they're doing that on a computer [...] we went through all these tests and things [...] someone would come up to me and say, 'You're 39.' [You'd recall] some sort of memory of 39, and your body tries to acclimate to that and think that way. They remind you of it."[39] The film's opening credits features the title I Heard You Paint Houses, the name of the novel on which the picture is based on, while the title The Irishman never appears onscreen.[40]
Financing and budget
In May 2016, Mexican production company Fábrica de Cine had offered $100 million to finance the film, and through that deal Paramount Pictures would retain domestic rights.[41] IM Global was also circling to bid for the film's international sales rights.[41] STX Entertainment bought the international distribution rights to the film for $50 million beating out other studios like Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate, while Fábrica de Cine closed the deal and Paramount retained its domestic rights.[42]
By February 2017, Paramount Pictures had dropped domestic distribution rights for The Irishman following the announcement that Fábrica de Cine would not be financing the film due to its climbing budget. Netflix then bought the film for $105 million and agreed to finance the film's $125 million budget with a release date set for October 2019.[43][44] In March 2018, it was also reported the film's budget had ballooned from $125 million to $140 million, due in large part to the visual effects needed to make De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci appear younger at various points throughout the film.[45] By August of that year, the cost had reportedly risen to as much as $175 million, and by the time post-production had wrapped some publications said it was $200 million.[46][47]
In August 2019, it was reported that the film's official cost was $159 million.[2][3]
Soundtrack
Canadian musician Robbie Robertson supervised the soundtrack.[48] It features both original and existing music tracks.[49]
Release
The Irishman had its world premiere at the 57th New York Film Festival on September 27, 2019.[50] It is scheduled to receive a limited theatrical release on November 1, 2019, followed by digital streaming on Netflix on November 27, 2019.[51]
The film will not play at the theaters owned by AMC, Cinemark, Regal or Cineplex, because the "four week progression to SVOD remains unacceptable to those chains."[51] It was previously reported in February 2019 that Netflix would possibly give the film a wide theatrical release, at the request of Scorsese.[52] The heads of several theater chains, including AMC's Adam Aron, who refused to play Roma the previous November, said they would only be open to playing The Irishman if Netflix "respects the decades old theatrical window, that suggests that movies come to theaters first for a couple of months, and then go to the home."[53]
The Irishman's international premiere was at the Closing Night Gala of the BFI London Film Festival on October 13, 2019. The festival's director Tricia Tuttle said it was an "immense cinephile thrill" to close the event with an "epic of breathtakingly audacious scale and complexity" from "one of the true greats of cinema."[54] The film is also scheduled to have screenings at the following film festivals: Mill Valley,[55][56] Hamptons,[57] Lumière,[58] San Diego,[59] Mumbai,[60] Rome,[61] Philadelphia,[62] Chicago,[63] Tokyo,[64] and Los Cabos.[65] Additionally, from November 1 to December 1, 2019, The Irishman will screen at the Belasco Theatre in New York City, making it the first film to ever screen in the Belasco's 112-year history.[66]
Marketing
The announcement trailer for the film premiered during the 91st Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, 2019.[67] Netflix then released a teaser trailer on July 31, 2019,[68] while the official trailer debuted on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on September 25, 2019
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