Robert De Niro Gets Booked

By Jason Boog 

9781586420895.jpgThirty years after playing a young Godfather, Robert De Niro is returning to mob literature to play one of the most famous mob killers–Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran.

Martin Scorsese will direct the film about the mob killer’s confession (his eighth project with De Niro), adapted from former prosecutor Charles Brandt’s book, —“I Heard You Paint Houses.” According to the release, the film will be directed by Martin Scorsese and scripted by Steve Zaillan, who wrote scripts for Schindler’s List and American Gangster.

Brandt’s literary career rests on the art of interrogation. He also wrote a novel based on some of his investigations, concluding:

“[C]onfession is one of the necessities of life, like food and shelter. It helps eliminate psychological waste from the brain.”