Every since shooting on Hugo wrapped, I’ve closely followed Martin Scorsese‘s next moves here at Movie Buzzers. It got really interesting, since the man generally considered to be one of the greatest living directors had, at one time, seven films that he was attached to direct. It wasn’t clear what he would direct as a follow-up to Hugo, but in March it was finally announced that Scorsese’s next film would be The Wolf of Wall Street. But now that production on that film is underway, what’s next?
As far as we know, Scorsese is still attached to direct Silence (the story of the 17th century Jesuit monks who brought Christianity to Japan), The Irishman (based on the life of of Frank Sheeran, the mob hitman who claims to have murdered Jimmy Hoffa that has Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, and Al Pacino attached to star), The Snowman (an adaptation of a Norwegian novel about a hardboiled detective), along with three other projects that he’s attached to in a scotch-tape sort of way, if you get my meaning (you can check the status of those here).
But one of his projects that is taking a step closer to production is Sinatra, Scorsese’s long-in-production biopic of singing superstar Frank Sinatra for Universal Pictures. That’s because according to Deadline Billy Ray, who adapted The Hunger Games, is now taking a stab at the script originally written by Phil Alden Robinson, the writer-director of Field of Dreams (though it actually isn’t clear if Robinson ever completed a draft).
I’m still hoping we’ll get to see The Irishman, which sounds like the Expendables of mob movies, but any new Scorsese is good news. I just hope that Scorsese, who turns 70 later this year, has the same energy in his seventies as Woody Allen to get all of these projects done!
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