Scorsese teams with De Niro to ‘Paint Houses’

The whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa may be answered, on screen – but if I Heard You Paint Houses ever comes to fruition it won’t be any time soon. I imagine tons of cinephiles are interested in the Scorsese+De Niro+Mob formula, but at 65 years young, this is just one more project in the pipeline (click here to see just how many projects Marty is attached to).

Variety reports that Scorsese would be teaming up with an actor he hasn’t worked with since 95’s Casino on a project set up with Paramount Pictures, with whom he just completed Shutter Island for. Steve Zaillian has been hired to adapt the book about the mob assassin who many believe was involved in the death of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. Pic’s title refers to mob slang for contract killings, and the resulting blood splatter on walls and floors. Book was written by Charles Brandt, who befriended Sheeran shortly before the latter’s death in 2003. Among the crimes Sheeran confessed to Brandt, according to the 2004 book, was the killing and dismemberment of Hoffa, carried out on orders from mob boss Russell Bufalino. De Niro will play Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran.

Scorsese will produce along with Tribeca partners De Niro and Jane Rosenthal.