The crime drama film starring Robert De Niro will head to London for its international premiere in October, two weeks after its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival.
- Aug 6, 2019
AceShowbiz - Martin Scorsese's crime drama "The Irishman" will close the 2019 London Film Festival (LFF).
The "Goodfellas" director's highly-anticipated film premieres at the New York Film Festival in September, and will have its international premiere as part of the LFF's Closing Night Gala on 13 October.
"I'm extremely honoured to be having the International Premiere of 'The Irishman' at the closing night of the BFI London Film Festival. This picture was many years in the making," Scorsese said in a statement. "It's a project that Robert De Niro and I started talking about a long time ago, and we wanted to make it the way it needed to be made. It's also a picture that all of us could only have made at this point in our lives. We're all very excited to be bringing 'The Irishman' to London."
The Netflix movie, which stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, marks the ninth feature collaboration between Scorsese and De Niro. The film chronicles the 1975 disappearance of notorious union boss Jimmy Hoffa, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who was involved with organised crime.
The "Raging Bull" actor stars as the real-life hustler and hitman Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran, who, shortly before he died, claimed to have killed Hoffa.
Steve Zillian adapted his screenplay from Charles Brandt's non-fiction novel "I Heard You Paint Houses", which documents what Sheeran told the author about Hoffa, who was legally declared dead in 1982.
The BFI London Film Festival opens with Armando Iannucci's "The Personal History of David Copperfield", starring Dev Patel and Tilda Swinton, on 2 October.
