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De Niro and Pacino to reunite
This is bound to wet the diapers of a few fanboys.
“Godfather II” and “Heat” duo Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are set to re-team for “Righteous Kill,” a $60 million indie production put together by Nu Image’s Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films, says Variety.
Shooting will begin Aug. 6 in Connecticut, with some work in Gotham to follow. The two stars play cops chasing a serial killer. Jon Avnet will direct and produce; “Inside Man” scribe Russell Gewirtz penned the script.
Nu Image topper Avi Lerner and Randall Emmett, two of the pic’s six producers, did not disclose additional plot details or the source material during a short press briefing Thursday. Rights to all world territories are being shopped in Cannes.
Emmett said the idea for the film originated from the two actors’ desire to co-star. “They’re friends, and this really all got started from that,” he said.
With typical showmanship, seated in the Nu Image Noga Hilton suite overlooking the beach, Lerner went a step farther.
“This is an event in world history,” he said. “They were in two scenes in ‘Heat.’ In this movie, they are in the whole thing together.”
Both thesps starred in “The Godfather: Part II” but had no scenes together.
