Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, and Leonardo DiCaprio are set to star in a Hawaii-set crime drama directed by Martin Scorsese
Director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio have made six films collectively to this point – Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), The Wolf of Wall Road (2013), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) – and so they’re at all times seeking to get one other collaboration off the bottom. Lately, we’ve heard rumblings that they might reunite for a Frank Sinatra biopic or the true crime serial killer challenge The Satan within the White Metropolis. Now, there’s one other Scorsese / DiCaprio challenge being pitched, as Deadline reviews that Jungle Cruise and Smashing Machine co-stars Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt are hooked up to star in a Scorsese-directed, Hawaii-set crime drama alongside DiCaprio.
Nick Bilton is ready to jot down the screenplay for the movie. Right here’s what Deadline has heard about it: 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 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. It was a bloody battle, the form of terrain Scorsese coated in each Goodfellas and The Departed. In Sixties and 70s Hawaii, this formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to construct the islands’ strongest felony empire, waging a brutal battle in opposition to mainland companies and rival syndicates whereas preventing to protect his ancestral land. It’s based mostly on the untold true story of a person who fought to protect his homeland by way of a ruthless quest for absolute energy — igniting the final nice American mob saga, the place the battle for cultural survival takes place within the unlikeliest of locations: paradise.
Scorsese, Johnson, Blunt, DiCaprio, and Bilton can be producing with Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette, and Rick Yorn. Johnson and Blunt introduced the concept to Scorsese and DiCaprio, and so they labored collectively to decide on Bilton because the screenwriter. Bilton will begin writing the script as soon as the challenge will get arrange at a studio… which gained’t be lengthy, as a result of the bidding battle is already in progress. As Deadline notes, “This is poised to be a big one.”
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