Cinema Science

A recent Variety article about Robert De Niro's thoughts on the potential actors strike had a few interesting details about some of his upcoming projects. First up was some news about not one, but two sequels to his 2005 directorial effort The Good Shepard. A film I quite admired and one that had the best girl being thrown out of an airplane shot I have ever seen.

Turning to more professional issues, 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.

There was also this little cryptic note about a future collaboration with Martin Scorsese, which apparently he is already working on.

His next project with Scorsese, which he declined to detail, is one on which he’s already working and should be ready by 2009, he said.

Earlier in an interview with the festival daily newspaper, De Niro had said he was “superstitious about talking about it.”