“De Niro” and the popular Internet taxi advertisement
The representative of “Robert De Niro” denied the rumors of “Robert De Niro” reprising his role in the movie “Taxi Driver” for “Uber” internet taxi ads.
Charso Press: According to Variety, several reports published in recent days indicate that De Niro is set to play the main character in Martin Scorsese’s 1976 drama “Taxi Driver” for an advertising campaign for the Internet taxi company “Uber” in the United Kingdom. to repeat, a role that cemented his position as one of the great actors of his era.
These unconfirmed reports eventually led “Taxi Driver” screenwriter Paul Schrader to criticize the idea in a Facebook post, writing, “Why Bob (De Niro) would do this is beyond my imagination.” . But I haven’t seen it and if I’m lucky I never will.”
In response to the rumors, Uber confirmed in a statement that De Niro will appear in an ad for the online taxi in the UK later this year, but that the ad campaign has no thematic connection to the movie “Taxi Driver”. De Niro’s spokesman, Stan Rosenfeld, also confirmed that the actor will not be reprising the character of Travis Bickle for the ad.
The neo-noir psychological thriller “Taxi Driver” earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for De Niro.
After writing the screenplay for Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader continued his collaboration with the Oscar-winning director and directed Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Resurrection (1999). also wrote De Niro also won his second Oscar for playing middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull.
De Niro recently appeared in Scorsese’s latest film, Full Moon Killers, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone. The story of this film is based on the best-selling non-fiction book written by “David Gran” and a screenplay by Scorsese and Eric Roth. It tells the story of the murder of several people in the Osage oil region in Oklahoma in the 1920s.