Robert De Niro and Al Pacino will team for the second time in
Righteous Kill, a $60 million independent production put together by Nu Image's Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films, according to
Variety.
Shooting will begin August 6 in Connecticut, with some work in New York to follow. The the two stars play cops chasing a serial killer. Jon Avnet will direct and produce and the script is by
Inside Man screenwriter Russell Gewirtz.
Emmett said the idea for the film originated from the two actors' desire to co-star. "They're friends, and this really all got started from that," he said.
"This is an event in world history," he said. "They were in two scenes in
Heat, In this movie, they are in the whole thing together."
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