Monday
07Jul2008
De Niro Talks 'Good Shepherd' Trilogy, Working with Scorsese Again
Monday, July 7, 2008 at 1:35AM 
Slogging through Europe promoting a film that many see
as a missed opportunity (What
Just Happened?, a prophetic title, no?),
Robert De Niro talked to
Variety this weekend but was more willing to
talk about upcoming projects...even one he wasn't willing to talk about.
While in the Czech Republic accepting a lifetime
achievement award, De Niro weighed in on the possible actor's guild strike,
which he thinks is a bad idea. "“I do not think it is a good time to strike now.
The issues could be resolved over the next couple of years (without strike
action),” he said.
De Niro also indicated his desire to make two sequels to
the cold Cold War spy film
The Good Shepherd, which despite apathetic
reviews, wound up making a surprising $100 million worldwide. Hearing that he'd
like to make a trilogy prompts the question, "What, you mean it wasn't
already a trilogy?"
Hopefully, Bobby D can trim some fat in parts two and
three, which he says will move from 1961 to 1989 (the end of the Cold War), and
from 1989 to the present.
De Niro also announced that he would be working with
Martin Scorsese at least two more times. The
pair worked on eight films together between 1973 and 1995 - Mean Streets,
Taxi Driver, New York New York, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, GoodFellas,
Cape Fear, and Casino. Saying it's "a lot of fun to work" with
Scorsese, De Niro hinted that they're already working on one project that should
be ready next year, but declined to elaborate, telling reporters earlier in the
day that he was “superstitious about talking about it.”
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