In a new interview with The Independent, national treasure Martin Scorsese says The Irishman - Scorsese's latest mafia movie, which will begin shooting for Netflix later this year - won't be a Goodfellas redux.

Here's the exact quote (via The Playlist):

“I think this is different, I think it is. 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 director goes on to note that he'll be working with an older cast on The Irishman, and that the film is "more about looking back, a retrospective so to speak of a man’s life and the choices that he’s had to make." Given where Scorsese (and the rest of The Irishman's cast) are at these days, that sounds very fitting.

What do you guys think? Are you comfortable with Scorsese taking a different approach to The Irishman? Are you bummed to learn it won't look and feel like Goodfellas or Casino? Are you, like me, suddenly inspired to give both of those movies a long overdue rewatch? Sound off in the comments below.

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