Author Charles Brandt talks De Niro and Scorsese adapting I Heard You Paint Houses into The Irishman

On March 23, 2019, the Northeast Pennsylvania Film Festival hosted a talk with Charles Brandt, author of the bestselling true crime book “I Heard You Paint Houses,” titled “When Scorsese Calls.” Brandt, a former prosecutor and Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware, spoke about his meetings with Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and screenwriter Steven Zaillian to discuss the film adaptation, "The Irishman."

This clip is from about halfway through the discussion when Brandt stopped talking about hitman Frank Sheeran and the making of the book and specifically focused on the upcoming movie adaptation that will be released on Netflix this fall.

“When we had script meetings, it was Scorsese, De Niro, Steve Zaillian, and me in the room. It was like winning the lottery,” Brandt said. “I sat there with these men as part of a very important and historic project. It was awe-inspiring and humbling. They’re such geniuses and I don’t know their craft, but I know that the questions they asked me about the people involved showed a sensitivity and humanity that I was in awe of.”

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