{"id":137354,"date":"2019-09-16T11:58:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=137354"},"modified":"2019-09-16T11:58:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:58:22","slug":"official-poster-to-director-martin-scorseses-the-irishman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/official-poster-to-director-martin-scorseses-the-irishman\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Poster To Director Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Netflix has released the official poster to director Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, <\/strong>which hits\u00a0select theaters on November 1, and gradually increase the number of screens until it drops on the streaming platform on November 27. It\u2019s also being reported that the film will have a similar run to last year\u2019s Oscar-winning\u00a0Roma<\/strong>, which will screen in about 150 theaters stateside, and roughly 1200 more abroad.<\/p>\n

The film will have its official premiere at the New York Film Festival next month.<\/p>\n

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Robert De Niro<\/strong> headlines The Irishman as mob hitman Frank \u201cThe Irishman\u201d Sheeran, reputed to have carried out more than 25 murders. Al Pacino<\/strong> will portray infamously slain labor leader Jimmy Hoffa in what will mark the Academy Award winner\u2019s first time working with Scorsese. It has also been reported that The Irishman may employ extensive (and expensive) digital de-aging techniques so the older actors can portray their characters through the decades.<\/p>\n

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Joe Pesci<\/strong>, meanwhile, will portray Pennsylvania Mafia boss Russell Bufalino, who may have had a hand in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Ray Romano<\/strong> will play another member of the same crime family, Bill Bufalino. Bill Bufalino works as a Teamster lawyer.<\/p>\n

Steve Zaillian<\/strong> (Schindler\u2019s List, American Gangster) penned the script based on the novel I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt. De Niro, Fabrica\u2019s Gaston Pavlovich, Jane Rosenthal, Scorcese, Randall Emmett, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff will produce.<\/p>\n