Martin Scorsese’s anticipated mob pic The Irishman will get its international premiere as the Closing Night Gala of this year’s BFI London Film Festival (October 2 – 13). Scorsese…
Scorsese and cast are expected to attend the London screening, which will take place two weeks after‘s world premiere at the New York Film Festival. The booking represents a coup for the UK festival.Gangs of New YorkThe grand scale epic examines the influence of organized crime in post-war America.
The Netflix-backed movie, which features a large amount of VFX to ‘de-age’ its lead cast, is one of the platform’s major Oscar season hopefuls. A Netflix release date has yet to be announced but an October or early November launch on the service seems likely given these autumn festival screenings. Scorsese commented on the London berth, “I’m extremely honored to be having the international premiere ofat the closing night of the BFI London Film Festival. This picture was many years in the making. It’s a project that Robert De Niro and I started talking about a long time ago, and we wanted to make it the way it needed to be made. It’s also a picture that all of us could only have made at this point in our lives.
The full London festival program will be announced on Thursday, 29 August 2019. The event will open with
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