Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ Will Be 3.5 Hours Long

Date: August 30, 2019

Martin Scorsese’s upcoming gangster film ‘The Irishman’ has a runtime of 3.5 hours, making it the filmmaker’s longest movie and the the longest mainstream American narrative movie in more than two decades.
It will play for audiences for the first time on Sept. 27, day one of the New York Film Festival (NYFF).

Based on Charles Brandt’s nonfiction book ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’, ‘The Irishman’ stars Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran, a World War II veteran who became a mob hitman and played a role in union boss Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance. Al Pacino stars as the notorious mob-connected Teamsters president in his first Scorsese film. Joe Pesci also stars as mob boss Russell Bufalino.

The movie will be released on Netflix, with a release date on November 27, 2019.

 

Published by: Jad Jradi