Robert De Niro wants to revisit MIDNIGHT RUN, TAXI DRIVER; talks THE IRISHMAN and Scorsese
Robert De Niro next stars as a business man with an eye on exploiting Bradley Cooper’s talents in Limitless, but De Niro also sees revisiting some of the roles that made him a superstar in the future, including Midnight Run.
De Niro sat down with Moviefone for an interview and shared this little nugget about revisiting Midnight Run and (what seems like his annual appeal) Taxi Driver:
If there was one role from your career you could reprise again, which one would it be?
Because I didn’t like how I did it the first time? [laughs]Well, I was thinking more because you liked doing it so much that you’d want to play that character again?
Well, we’re talking about doing another Midnight Run, and that was a character that I liked a lot. They’re working on it, and that’s something that I would have fun doing.Would Charles Grodin come back, too?
I don’t know. I think it would be his son is in trouble, and now I’m doing him this favor to get his son out of trouble.And I think it was 10 or 15 years ago I asked Marty and Paul Schrader if they’d want to explore the idea of where Travis Bickle would be today. I think Paul may have even written a script or a treatment, but we didn’t get excited enough. That’s one I always felt would be interesting to go back and play.
And what about his future collaboration with Martin Scorsese, The Irishman:
Is there a start date yet for The Irishman?
There’s no start date because Marty has a movie called Silence that he wants to do first. He’s been wanting to do it for years. So once he gets that locked in, then we can have an idea of when we can start.But you and Pesci and Pacino are still locked in to star?
Yes.Are you and Scorsese still toying with the idea of making a Fellini-like side project to ‘The Irishman’ that looks at your collaboration?
That was Eric Roth’s idea, and it’s a tricky one. I wanted to do it, I just don’t know if it’s going to happen now. Maybe. It still might, I don’t know. It was very ambitious to have this idea of using some footage from ‘The Irishman’ while also shooting another script that kind of plays on the history of Hollywood and me and Marty’s collaboration in that history, but it sort of lost steam at one point. Maybe it will come back, because I thought the idea was great.
You can read the full interview, including tidbits about a The Good Shepard sequel, at Moviephone.
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