“I think this is different, I think it is,” he insists. “I admit that there are – you know, Goodfellas and Casino have a certain style that I created for them – it's on the page in the script actually. Putting Goodfellas together was almost like an afterthought, at times I was kind of rushing, I felt I'd already done it because I'd played it all out in terms of the camera moves and the editing and that sort of thing. The style of the picture, the cuts, the freeze-frames, all of this was planned way in advance, but here it's a little different.

“The people are also older in The Irishman, it's certainly more about looking back, a retrospective so to speak of a man's life and the choices that he's had to make.”

I'm sure I'll be there the first weekend, but I'm pretty skeptical about how good it'll be. Part of that's the technology they'll be using - the actors still have to project some vigor and there's a lot of old coots here. The other thing is that between the technology and the top five or so actors will there be any money left to make the movie? They may have been better just doing an over-the-hill gangster comedy.

Ray Romano will play the part of Hoffa lawyer Bill Bufalino.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/ray-romano-martin-scorseses-the-irishman-at-netflix-1202495401/

Why did they have to give that windbag Dietl a mobster role? In Goodfellas he basically plays himself. Loudmouth cop busting Henry at the end. He was in Wolf of Wall Street, too. A Scoresese regular.

Scorsese is in no rush.