Speaking at a press conference in London for 'What Just Happened', De Niro talked about working with his friend, director Scorsese on 'I Heard you Paint Houses'.
When asked by RTÉ.ie to confirm the rumours, he said: "Yes, that's something that Marty and I, we want to do very much.Based on the life of former hit man, Frank 'The Irish Man' Sheeran, 'I Heard you Paint Houses' is scheduled for release in 2011.
"Steve Zaillian is at this point writing the script and we have an even more ambitious plan of doing another movie connected to it, in some way, with Eric Roth hopefully writing that script. So yeah, that's very much planned to be done."