Charles Brandt's mafia non-fiction book I Heard You Paint Houses is set to be made into a movie in 2012, featuring a dream cast: Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel, according to an article in the Idaho Mountain Express by Tony Evans. The book, published in 2004, was a New York Times bestseller.
To "paint a house" is a euphemism for murder—the paint is the blood that spatters on the walls.
The film is in production at Paramount Studios under the working title "The Irishman," and will be directed by Martin Scorsese, based on a screenplay by Oscar winner Steve Zaillian.
The book is a true-crime biography of Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, a Teamsters official and Mafia associate who on orders from his powerful godfather, Russell Bufalino, killed his friend and mentor Jimmy Hoffa, and 25 to 30 others, including Crazy Joey Gallo.
While interviewing Sheeran for the book, Brandt said, he uncovered key information implicating the Mafia in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
"I am absolutely 100 percent convinced that the Mafia killed JFK," Brandt said in an interview. "I theorize that Lee Harvey Oswald was expecting to meet up with cops who would help him get out of the country."
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