The Winter of Frankie Machine
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The Winter of Frankie Machine
http://imdb.com/title/tt0490242
de niro? check
scorsese? check
boner? check
then again, imdb isnt the most reliable source
either way, hope makes me happy
de niro? check
scorsese? check
boner? check
then again, imdb isnt the most reliable source
either way, hope makes me happy
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No word on if Scorsese is involved, but here is an update:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=16510
Ocean's 13 Writers Take on Winter
Source: Variety September 15, 2006
Ocean's 13 screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien have been hired to adapt Don Winslow novel "The Winter of Frankie Machine" for Paramount Pictures.
Robert De Niro is attached to star in the pic and is producing with partner Jane Rosenthal through their Tribeca Films.
The project is about a mob hitman who gave up the game for a quiet life as the proprietor of a bait shop. When the son of a mob boss asks for his backup to help resolve a dispute with another Mafioso, he agrees, only to find he's been set up for a hit.
The book hits shelves on September 26.
Koppelman and Levien are producers on current release The Illusionist from the Yari Film Group.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=16510
Ocean's 13 Writers Take on Winter
Source: Variety September 15, 2006
Ocean's 13 screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien have been hired to adapt Don Winslow novel "The Winter of Frankie Machine" for Paramount Pictures.
Robert De Niro is attached to star in the pic and is producing with partner Jane Rosenthal through their Tribeca Films.
The project is about a mob hitman who gave up the game for a quiet life as the proprietor of a bait shop. When the son of a mob boss asks for his backup to help resolve a dispute with another Mafioso, he agrees, only to find he's been set up for a hit.
The book hits shelves on September 26.
Koppelman and Levien are producers on current release The Illusionist from the Yari Film Group.
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I thought Scorsese was gonna do Silence next?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490215/
I remember him mentioning it a bit in Scorsese on Scorsese, and there's this from his entry on Wikipedia:
And besides, I doubt Scorsese would want to do another picture involving gangsters right after The Departed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490215/
I remember him mentioning it a bit in Scorsese on Scorsese, and there's this from his entry on Wikipedia:
Based on the novel by Japanese author Shusaku Endo it is projected for a 2008 release. Early in 2006 Scorsese spoke of directing the movie, and a recent interview with his long-time editor Thelma Schoonmaker in Time Out confirmed that this is his next film project. She is quoted saying "It's something very close to Scorsese's heart – he's wanted to make it for many years but he's never really had the time to write the script and get it funded. But we're all hoping that this time it's going to happen, and it looks like we're going to shoot it in New Zealand as well."
Silence is a novel by Shusaku Endo, about two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, who travel to seventeenth century Imperial Japan (which has isolated itself from all foreign contact) to see how the evangelical mission is going. There they witness the persecution of the Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government who wishes to purge Japan of all western influence. Eventually they separate and Rodrigues travels the country-side, wondering why God remains silent while His children suffer. Javier Bardem is set to star.
Silence is a novel by Shusaku Endo, about two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, who travel to seventeenth century Imperial Japan (which has isolated itself from all foreign contact) to see how the evangelical mission is going. There they witness the persecution of the Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government who wishes to purge Japan of all western influence. Eventually they separate and Rodrigues travels the country-side, wondering why God remains silent while His children suffer. Javier Bardem is set to star.
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Scorsese... Deniro... Mafia plot... beating dead horse.
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And DeNiro and Scorsese yield better results when NOT making mafia movies (eg. Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)
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Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt
And DeNiro and Scorsese yield better results when NOT making mafia movies (eg. Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)
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Correct me if I'm wrong but hasnt there only been one Deniro/Scorsece mafia movie? That being Goodfellas. Casino wasn't really a mafia movie and Mean Streets was about small hoods, not the mafia.
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Originally Posted by RyoHazuki
Correct me if I'm wrong but hasnt there only been one Deniro/Scorsece mafia movie? That being Goodfellas. Casino wasn't really a mafia movie and Mean Streets was about small hoods, not the mafia.
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I'm talking about content. The films weren't about the mafia although the mafia may have been featured in them. Goodfellas was ABOUT the mafia. Mean Streets and Casino aren't about the mafia.
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Originally Posted by hardercore
Casino wasn't about the Mafia? you got to be kidding me. Who was behind Ace running the bloody Casino? Raging Bull, not about the Mafia? Tommy Como, Salvy, everyone at the Copa? That's not the fucking Mafia? And in Mean Streets, Charlie's uncle was a mob boss. What, are you going to try and convince everyone he was actually a tie salesman?
Great use of the word "fucking" to make your point.