Scorsese and De Niro to reunite

For all the talk – some of it ours – that Martin Scorsese has a new cinematic muse in Leonardo DiCaprio, it appears that the directing legend and Robert De Niro are getting back together.

The 'Goodfellas' star has confirmed that the pair are plotting a new project.

Speaking at a press conference for his new film, the Luc Besson-directed 'The Family', De Niro spilled the beans to HeyUGuys.

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“I have another gangster film I’m gonna do with Scorsese and it’s a very interesting one,” he said.

“We’re preparing it. We have a script and Marty has another film he’s doing before so it won’t be for a while.”

It would be the first time the pair have worked together since ‘Casino’ in 1995.

Now that sounds enticing. But it's not all.

“Once Scorsese and I were thinking about doing a book together, and we might still I don’t know, but it’s as far as it went,” he added.

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Book-writing aside, it's thought that Scorsese's next film, after the forthcoming 'The Wolf of Wall Street', could be an adaptation of Shusaku Endo's 1966 book 'Silence', about Jesuit priests in the 17th century going to Japan to try to spread Christianity.

The director was seeking funding for it in Cannes this year.

But the gangster film De Niro is likely referring to is an adaptation of 'I Heard You Paint Houses', a book by Charles Brandt detailing the life of mob hitman Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran.

Al Pacino, De Niro and Joe Pesci were all thought to be in the running for the lead role, but perhaps De Niro has snagged it.

Whatever the case, first up will be the hotly-anticipated 'The Wolf of Wall Street', due out in the UK on January 17.

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