
Variety is reporting from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival where De Niro received a lifetime achievement award while debuting What Just Happened?, a film I understand to be awful based on pretty much all festival reports. While under questioning De Niro discussed how he doesn't want an actors' strike as well as brought up the potential for a Good Shepherd trilogy.
De Niro said he would like to make two sequels to CIA Cold War drama "The Good Shepherd" -- one bringing the action forward from 1961 to 1989, the other following its hero, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), up to the present day.Based on the quotes I would be willing to bet money that nothing comes of this news. I am basing this on the offhand nature of the quotes and the fact that he says he hasn't done any research. Perhaps Eric Roth, who penned the first film, has already done all the research needed, but seeing how the article mentions nothing about screenwriters or any kind of production timeline it sounds to me like the 64-year-old actor/director is just talking.Although he is not working on research for the concluding parts of the hoped-for trilogy, De Niro said being in central Europe offered a good opportunity to begin thinking about the material.
"I had not been planning to do research on that while here, but it is a good idea," he said.
If you are interested in watching De Niro when he didn't suck get prepped for The Godfather trilogy coming to Blu-ray in September.







Considering we're here in 2008 and he hasn't moved any further forward, not even for research, I doubt we're going to see this film anytime soon.
He even says that he's doing two more with Scorsese, an even longer wait I think.
However, that said, I would like to see them made, The Good Shepherd was...well...good!
(Jul. 7, 2008 - 5:40:29 AM)
I guess Scorsese is one person that could bring his career out of the gutter... maybe.
(Jul. 7, 2008 - 6:07:51 AM)