A long-gestating project might just be coming together ahead of Cannes, a movie that would reteam Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese with his Goodfellas stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and would mark the first time that the director would work with Al Pacino. That's huge. And the project is right up the organized crime-focused creative alley of all involved.

The Irishman, based on Charles Brandt's true-crime book "I Heard You Paint Houses," tells the deathbed story of mob hitman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, who had insider knowledge about the disappearance and death of Jimmy Hoffa. As Deadline reports, the movie is coming together quickly in order to shop it to international buyers at Cannes next week. That's all contingent upon whether or not Paramount, which currently controls the project, signs off on the deal to sell international rights to Fabrica de Cine, the production banner which recently backed Scorsese's Silence.