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LOS ANGELES: Director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro are reuniting once more in a mob film about a contract killer.
The Oscar-winning duo, who have worked together previously on a number of mob films such as “Goodfellas”, “Casino” and “Mean Streets”, will be making a movie adaptation of “I Heard You Paint Houses”, Charles Brandt's book of the same name.
The mob memoir is based on the life of Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, a contract killer who is reputed to have carried out more than 25 murders for the mob, including the murder of Teamsters' union boss Jimmy Hoffa.
The book title is mob slang for contract killings and it refers to the resulting blood-splattered walls and floors after the mob murders.
De Niro, who just wrapped up filming for “Everybody’s Fine”, is set to play Sheeran in the film.
Among the crimes the hitman is alleged to have confessed to Brandt shortly before his death in 2003, is the killing of Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975 and was presumed murdered.
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