Robert DeNiro Will Look As He Did In the Godfather Part II In New Gangster Movie The Irishman

DeNiro and Scorsese Get The Luck Of The Irish

♦Robert DeNiro and Martin Scorsese have a special place in Tripwire’s hearts thanks to Goodfellas and to a lesser extent Casino and new film The Irishman which will be see the pair reunite sounds intriguing. The Playlist has news of DeNiro’s role in the film but CGI will allow him to look as he did in his Godfather Part II heyday…

“Well, it’s an extraordinary technology that we’ve been looking at. You don’t use prosthetics, make-up, they have acting and the technology is able to have them go through different time ages without the prosthetics. So we’ve seen some tests and it looks extraordinary,” he told Cinema Blend. “We were able to film Bob and just do a scene, and we saw it come down to when he was like 20, 40, 60, so we’re looking forward to that, from that point of view, for ‘The Irishman’ … Imagine seeing what De Niro looked like in ‘The Godfather 2‘ days, that’s pretty much how you’re going to see him again.”

It’s an interesting idea conceptually, though whether or not it can be realistic enough to not take a viewer out of the movie does remain to be seen. It does save Scorsese from having to cast numerous actors in the same role, if he can just digitize De Niro for whatever era the story decides to journey toward. Guess we shall see just how it all turns out.

The Irishman is currently aiming to open in cinemas in 2018.

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