After a couple of years languishing in development and pre-production, news has finally arrived that Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is finally a go and set to go before the cameras later this year (via IndieWire).

Netflix has bought the rights to the film and has stumped up $100million (possibly the biggest in the company’s history thus far) to allow Scorsese to bring his mob hitman tale to the screen – well, the small screen anyhow.

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