Originally published July 15, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
Earlier this week it was announced that Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and Bobby Cannavale have joined Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating project The Irishman, and now comes word from THR that Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond, The Big Sick) has also signed on to the cast.
The film is based upon Charles Brandt’s book I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran and the Inside Story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the Final Ride by Jimmy Hoffa, and stars De Niro as Sheeran, a mob hitman who claims to have been responsible for the murder of Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino). Romano is set to play Bill Bufalino, a Teamster lawyer with mob ties.
Production on The Irishman is set to get underway in August and the film is slated for release in 2019.
