Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese Make Plans to Film Crime Story Called The Irishman

Robert De Niro is speaking to the press about his plans to film The Irishman with director Martin Scorsese.
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You can watch a video of De Niro speaking about the upcoming film and read about it via the below link:
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http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1636128/story.jhtml
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Scorsese and De Niro (seen in above photo) have collaborated to make such classic films as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Casino. I look forward to seeing them work together on another crime film.
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The Irishman interests me as the film is based on a crime story with a South Philadelphia connection. The film is based on the true crime book I heard You Paint Houses, which was about Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran.
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Sheeran was a Philadelphia native, Teamster union official and a confessed hit man for Cosa Nostra. Sheeran states in his book that his first hit was ordered by South Philadelphia Cosa Nostra mob boss Angelo Bruno. Sheeran also claimed to have murdered former Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa and New York mobster Crazy Joe Gallo.
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I heard You Paint Houses was written by Charles Brant, a lawyer and former prosecutor. He wrote the book based on four years of taped interviews with Sheeran.
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I wrote about the book for GreatHistory.com and you can read my piece via the link below:
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http://greathistory.com/i-heard-you-paint-houses-the-man-who-claimed-to-murder-jimmy-hoffa.htm
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You can also read my other GreatHistory.com pieces on espionage and American crime via the below link:
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http://greathistory.com/members/pauldavisoncrime/blogs/recent-posts