Scorsese and De Niro Together Again?

Reuters caught up with Martin Scorsese at the Berlin Film Festival premiere of SHUTTER ISLAND.  There, the legendary director dropped a bit of a bomb shell about a possible ninth collaboration with Robert De Niro.  What’s more, the new film will revolve around the Mafia world, as if there was any doubt to that.

Bob De Niro (and I) are talking about something that has to do with that world.  There’s no doubt about that. We’re working on something like that, but it’s from the vantage point of older men looking back, none of this running around stuff.

It has been 15 years since Scorsese directed De Niro (the two provided voices together for 2004’s SHARK TALE, but we’re not really counting that, are we?), and 1995’s CASINO, while it is remembered as a fine film, isn’t among either talent’s most noted films.  This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of GOODFELLAS and the 30th anniversary for RAGING BULL, two films that decidedly are.  The time, if any, for a new collaboration between Scorsese and De Niro seems perfect, and, if DiCaprio comes on board the project, as well, it could end up being Scorsese’s masterpiece.

SHUTTER ISLAND hits theaters this Friday.