Legends in their own right, silver-screen veterans Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino are teaming up to star in the indie flick Righteous Kill from Nu Image’s Millennium Films and Emmett Furla Films. The annoucement was made on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, and this marks only the third time that the two stars have been in the same film, and only the second time they’ve actually appeared together.

The first time DeNiro and Pacino appeared together was in the movie Heat. However, their time together was quite brief, filming just two scenes together. In Godfather II their characters never met. But in Righteous Kill, they’ll be together for the entire course of the film.

One of the movie’s producer, Randall Emmett, said that the movie was actually set in motion by the two actors, who are also friends. Co-producer Avi Lerner believes it to be a film event of historic proportions: “This is an event in world history. They were in two scenes in Heat. In this movie, they are in the whole thing together.”

Righteous Kill was written by Russel Gewirtz, who wrote last year’s hit film Inside Man. The film reportedly has a budget of $60 million, and casting for other roles is currently underway.

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