The potential subsequent collaboration between Martin Scorsese and his longtime muse and lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio has simply been revealed. Additionally, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a part of it for some wild motive.
Based on an unique report from Deadline, the pitch for Scorsese’s newest mission following his Oscar-nominated movie “Killers of the Flower Moon” has DiCaprio, Johnson, and Emily Blunt connected to star. (Johnson and Blunt, not like DiCaprio, shall be working with the commemorated director for the very first time.) Deadline additionally offered the pitch’s “thumbnail description,” which reads, “Think about Robert De Niro’s Jimmy the Gent character from ‘Goodfellas,’ however as a ruthless Hawaiian crime boss, primarily based on an actual determine, who battled encroaching rivals for management of organized crime in Hawaii.” The outlet additionally notes that the movie shall be written by Nick Bilton (a Self-importance Truthful editor who directed the 2021 documentary “Faux Well-known”) and says that the “movie focuses on a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest management of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands.”
Blunt is well-known for status tasks — together with the 2023 essential and industrial blockbuster “Oppenheimer” — and DiCaprio is clearly a mainstay for Scorsese, however it’s positively attention-grabbing to see somebody like Johnson concerned in a mission with the director behind “The Departed” and “Gangs of New York.” Nonetheless, Johnson has been shifting away from popcorn fare as of late; in truth, we just lately obtained a primary have a look at his A24 mission “The Smashing Machine,” which additionally options Blunt and is directed by indie movie staple Benny Safdie. (Additionally notable: this Scorsese mission will mark one other collaboration between Blunt and Johnson, who beforehand appeared in “Jungle Cruise” collectively.) Extremely, this report moreover notes that Johnson and Blunt introduced the idea for this at the moment untitled movie to Scorsese and DiCaprio, and the group of Hollywood A-listers labored collectively to get Bilton on board.
Martin Scorsese is exploring each acquainted and new territory with this potential new mission
In 2023, Martin Scorsese explored acquainted floor and in addition stretched his artistic imaginative and prescient additional than he has in a while with “Killers of the Flower Moon,” an American epic primarily based on a e book by David Grann that was penned by Scorsese himself and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Eric Roth. Whereas the general idea of the film matches into Scorsese’s oeuvre (in that it is a sweeping but private crime drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro), it additionally gave him the chance to characterize the Indigenous inhabitants of america and their historical past, significantly within the ways in which they have been brutalized and focused by white People.
Certain, an outdated Italian-American man directing a film about Native People sounds tough on the floor, however because of Scorsese’s imaginative and prescient and his work alongside the movie’s feminine lead Lily Gladstone (who was raised on the Blackfeet Reservation and is of Piegan Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage), the movie facilities the Native American expertise round Gladstone’s character Mollie Kyle, a real-life Osage lady. All in all, it marked a significant perspective shift for Scorsese, and a welcome one, giving a voice to a people who have been murdered and abused to learn rich white People in Osage County in Oklahoma and telling an sadly true story of brutality and violence.
That is all to say that, on this at the moment untitled mission, Scorsese will give attention to a special American Indigenous inhabitants — particularly, the folks of Hawaii. It is also essential to say right here that Dwayne Johnson lived on the island of Oahu as a toddler, so his involvement on this mission could possibly be fairly necessary. If you wish to discover Scorsese’s most up-to-date mission so you possibly can think about what this subsequent one will provide, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is accessible to stream on Apple TV+ now.
