The phrase “I Heard You Paint Houses” is gangster slang for the blood splattered on walls in contract killings. Though he didn’t participate in it, he claims he transported rifles to the assassins through David Ferrie. Sheeran claimed to have been part of the anti-Fidel Castro forces involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion and that he knew intimate details about the Kennedy assassination, claiming it was a mob hit. Sheeran is believed to be the triggerman behind the Crazy Joe Gallo hit at Umberto’s Clam House in New York’s Little Italy. The Irishman Backstoryįrank “The Irishman” Sheeran was a union official at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters who was accused of having links to the Bufalino crime family. Jack Huston, who played the disfigured doughboy sniper Richard Harrow, joins The Irishmanas well. The fllm allso features Stephen Graham ( Boardwalk Empire, Public Enemies), Jesse Plemons ( The Post, Hostiles), and controversial rapper Action Bronson. Gary Basaraba ( Suburbicon) will play Teamsters President Frank “Fitz” Fitzsimmons. Basaraba played Herb Rennet on Mad Men, and starred on Mixed Blessings. Sheeran fingered Bufalino as the boss who took out the contract on Hoffa.Īnna Paquin ( True Blood, The Piano) will play Peggy Sheeran. Joe Pesci will play Russell Bufalino, the head of the Bufalino Crime family. Netflix’s fact-based mob epic about Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, the presumed killer of Jimmy Hoffa, boasts an all-star Scorsese cast, Robert De Niro will play Frank Sheeran. This will be Al Pacino’s first Scorsese. The screenplay for The Irishman was written by Steve Zaillian. The pair also collaborated on Taxi Driver, New York, New York, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Cape Fear and Casino. The film marks the ninth collaboration between Scorsese and De Niro, who first worked together on the 1973 mob classic Mean Streets. Scorsese’s adaptation of Charles Brandt‘s nonfiction 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, about mob hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, has been in the works since 2010. Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, The Irishman tells the story of a master assassin whose hit list was buried for years. Frank Sheeran is the hitman who copped to the Jimmy Hoffa hit. Action Bronson, star of VICELAND’s The Untitled Action Bronson Show, has an undisclosed role in the upcoming Netflix film The Irishman, according to Billboard.
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