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 purpose.
In line with an unique report from Deadline, the pitch for Scorsese’s newest undertaking following his Oscar-nominated movie “Killers of the Flower Moon” has DiCaprio, Johnson, and Emily Blunt hooked up to star. (Johnson and Blunt, in contrast to DiCaprio, might be working with the commemorated director for the very first time.) Deadline additionally supplied 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, based mostly on an actual determine, who battled encroaching rivals for management of organized crime in Hawaii.” The outlet additionally notes that the movie might be written by Nick Bilton (a Vainness Honest editor who directed the 2021 documentary “Pretend 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 vital and business blockbuster “Oppenheimer” — and DiCaprio is clearly a mainstay for Scorsese, but it surely’s undoubtedly fascinating to see somebody like Johnson concerned in a undertaking 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 not too long ago bought a primary have a look at his A24 undertaking “The Smashing Machine,” which additionally options Blunt and is directed by indie movie staple Benny Safdie. (Additionally notable: this Scorsese undertaking 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 present 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 undertaking
In 2023, Martin Scorsese explored acquainted floor and in addition stretched his inventive imaginative and prescient additional than he has in a while with “Killers of the Flower Moon,” an American epic based mostly 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 symbolize the Indigenous inhabitants of the USA and their historical past, significantly within the ways in which they had been brutalized and focused by white Individuals.
Positive, an outdated Italian-American man directing a film about Native Individuals sounds tough on the floor, however due to 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 girl. All in all, it marked a significant perspective shift for Scorsese, and a welcome one, giving a voice to a people who had been murdered and abused to learn rich white Individuals in Osage County in Oklahoma and telling an sadly true story of brutality and violence.
That is all to say that, on this at present untitled undertaking, Scorsese will give attention to a special American Indigenous inhabitants — particularly, the individuals 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 undertaking might be fairly vital. If you wish to discover Scorsese’s most up-to-date undertaking so you may think about what this subsequent one will supply, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is accessible to stream on Apple TV+ now.
