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Paramount Pictures is plotting a return to organized crime for Martin Scorses and Robert De Niro. They have already asked Steve Zaillian to adapt I Heard you Paint Houses, the book about the mob assassin who many believe was involved in the death of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa.

Martin Scorsese is interested in directing the feature. De Niro will play Frank The Irishman Sheeran, who is reputed to have carried out more than 25 mob murders. The film will be produced by Scorses and Tribeca partners De Niro and Jane Rosenthal. The film landed at Paramount thought the overall deal that the studio has with Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions.

The films title is really interesting it is mob slang for contract killings and the resulting blood splatter on walls and floors. The book was written by Charles Brandt, who befriended Sheeran shortly before the latter’s death in 2003. Among the crimes Sheeran confessed to Brandt, according to the 2004 book, was the killing and dismemberment of Hoffa, carried out on orders from mob boss Russell Bufalino.

Zaillian was most recently seen working on American Gangster which was about Frank Lucas. He also co wrote Gangs of New York with Scorsese. Scorses also brought Zaillian to script Schindler’s list before turning over the project to Steven Spielberg and instead directing De Niro in Cape Fear. Zaillian won an Oscar for his Schindler’s List script.

Scorsese has some interesting line up for the coming years. He has just finished work on his Shutter Island for Paramount with Leonardo Di Caprio. He’s in the midst of settling on his next directing project, with Silence, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Long Play at the top of his list.

De niro will be next seen in Kirk Jones directed Everybody’s Fine with Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale and Drew Barrymore. He’s also plotting a re team with Heat director Michael Mann on Frankie Machine and adaptation of the Don Winslow novel that is also at Paramount.