Martin Scorsese could find his accomplice Leonardo DiCaprio for a film on the origins of the American mafia. But will this project really see the day?
While developing a film on the Hawaiian mafia with Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt, Martin Scorsese is also preparing another feature film centered on the underworld.
According to the site World of Reelthe Oscar -winning director was working on a project temporarily entitled Midnight Vendetta. Written by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Munich, Dune), this film would be interested in the origins of the Mafia in the United States, appeared in New Orleans around 1890. Leonardo DiCaprio, a faithful collaborator of Scorsese, would be again associated with the project. However, the site specifies that the actor has yet signed anything. No information has been confirmed from an official source.
Already 3 biopics projects with DiCaprio!
This information therefore remains to be taken on the conditional, and is added to the long list of projects in the course of the filmmaker. In addition to Mafia's film with The Rock mentioned above, Scorsese has also been announced for several years to make several biopics with Leonardo DiCAPRI In the main roles: The Devil in the White City, centered on Daniel H. Burnham, Sinatra with also Jennifer Lawrence in the casting, and a biopic on Theodore Roosevelt.
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He also mentioned the adaptation of “Life of Jesus” by Shūsaku Endō, of the novel “Home“by Marilynne Robinson, and a book by David Grann,”Water shipwrecked“, With … (you guessed it!) DiCaprio on the poster, as well as a biopic on Jerry Garcia, the leader of the Grateful Dead group, with Jonah Hill.
So many projects that may never see the light of day. In an interview with the Associated Press last November, Martin Scorsese said to have many ideas, but shortly before him to make them all concretize them:
“From Killers of the Flower Moon, time has passed, and even if I don't like getting up too much early, I want to shoot a film now. The time will go. I will be almost 82 years old. It's time to get started. The question that guides me is the following: is it worth it at this stage of life? After my loved ones and my family, it's time.
