Joe Pesci be starring in "The Irishman" with long time collaborators Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese. The film is planned for release in 2019 and will be distributed by Netflix. Pesci is a character in the 2005 musical "Jersey Boys", which tells the story of The Four Seasons, due to his involvement in the band's formation. He is similarly a character in the musical's 2014 film adaptation. In the film, the Joe Pesci character asks "Funny how?", a quote from "Goodfellas". Pesci was briefly a recurring character on "Saturday Night Live", played by Jim Breuer. Breuer's characterization was based on Pesci's
Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro wife. In 1977, De Niro starred in Scorsese's "New York, New York", a musical-drama film. It was a musical tribute, featuring new songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb as well as standards, to Scorsese's home town of New York City, and starred De Niro and Liza Minnelli as a pair of musicians and lovers. During filming, the married Scorsese became romantically involved with Minnelli and began heavily using cocaine and other hard narcotics. At the time Andy Warhol wrote in his diary that Minnelli and Scorsese showed up at the door of a famous fashion designer demanding: "Give me