It’s sometimes easy to forget that Martin Scorsese is just as good of a documentary filmmaker as he is a narrative one. While most of his documentaries are music-based — The Last Waltz, The Blues, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Shine a Light, and George Harrison: Living in the Material World — documentaries like Public Speaking and the 50 Year Argument demonstrate that he’s able to tackle a variety of subjects.
Of course, Scorsese also happens to be the hardest working director in the movie business. Don’t believe me? For years I have been tracking all of the projects that have his name attached to them, and as of this March he is attached to six narrative features, not counting Silence, his 2016 film that is currently in production. So when is he going to find time to film his next documentary? According to The Telegraph, he’s already selected one.
Scorsese is slated to direct a documentary about Kenneth Branagh‘s stage production of Macbeth, a celebrated staging that debuted at the Manchester International Festival before transferring to a very successful New York run. The production was praised for its gritty presentation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy and how audience-immersive it was.
Scorsese and Branagh are planning to film the behind-the-scenes aspects of putting a third run of the production together at the World War II Leavesden Aerodrome in Hertfordshire.
There’s no timetable on when this will be filmed, but expect Scorsese to fit in between Silence and four or five other projects.
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