This time it’s no April Fools joke kids.
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino will star together for the first time since “Heat” in Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films $60 milllion crime thriller “Righteous Kill” reports Teletext.
Jon Avnet (“Entrapment”) directs and Russell Gewirtz (“Inside Man”) penned the story, which pairs the stars as detectives on the trail of a serial killer.
“This was one of the hardest deals we’ve done,” producer Randell Emmett said. “When we realised we had a chance to get them together we leapt at it.”
The two-month shoot begins August 6th in Connecticut with follow-up information in New York City.