To get a book turned into a film takes tenacity. Sometimes, it takes serendipity. In the case of “The Irishman,” it took both.
“This project was born under a lucky star,” says my friend, Gerald “Jerry” Chamales, a businessman who is the central character in this tale. The story begins 15 years ago, when Jerry’s wife, Kathleen, an avid reader, decided to go to Idaho’s Sun Valley Writers’ Conference and heard author Charles Brandt speak about his book, “I Heard You Paint Houses,” the story of a self-confessed Mafia hitman named Frank Sheeran who claimed to have a major role in Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa’s mysterious 1982 disappearance. When she got back to Los Angeles, Kathleen raved to Jerry about the book and about Brandt’s talk. Shortly thereafter, they were back in Ketchum, when they walked by Cheryl Thomas’ Chapter One Bookstore, where the cover of Brandt’s...
“This project was born under a lucky star,” says my friend, Gerald “Jerry” Chamales, a businessman who is the central character in this tale. The story begins 15 years ago, when Jerry’s wife, Kathleen, an avid reader, decided to go to Idaho’s Sun Valley Writers’ Conference and heard author Charles Brandt speak about his book, “I Heard You Paint Houses,” the story of a self-confessed Mafia hitman named Frank Sheeran who claimed to have a major role in Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa’s mysterious 1982 disappearance. When she got back to Los Angeles, Kathleen raved to Jerry about the book and about Brandt’s talk. Shortly thereafter, they were back in Ketchum, when they walked by Cheryl Thomas’ Chapter One Bookstore, where the cover of Brandt’s...
- 11/27/2019
- by Mary Murphy and Michele Willens
- The Wrap
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