A Martin Scorsese Family Film?!?

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A Martin Scorsese Family Film?!?


Source: Variety
February 22, 2007




In some of the wildest news to come out of the success of Martin Scorsese's latest film The Departed, Variety reports that Warner Bros. is hoping that the veteran filmmaker might helm a movie based on Brian Selznick's bestselling children's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the studio having aquired the rights just a month after its release by Scholastic. (For those not keeping track, Scholastic and Warner Bros. have had a lot of success with J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.) The adaptation will be done by screenwriter John Logan, who penned Scorsese's 2004 biopic The Aviator, and produced by regular Scorsese collaborator Grant King.

Brian Selznick's novel is about a 12-year-old orphan who lives in the walls of a Paris train station in 1930 and a mystery involving the boy, his late father and a robot.

Scorsese already has a lot of other projects on his plate, but if he does fit the movie into his schedule, it will be his first foray into family films. What's interesting is that with Scorsese's recent first-look deal with Paramount, they would own the rights to half of any project he directs or produces for other studios as well. Right now, Scorsese's slate includes a remake of the Japanese film Silence about 17th century Jesuit priests trying to spread Christianity in Japan (in place before the Paramount deal), and he's looking to direct a big-screen adaptation of Eric Jager's historical tome Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal and Trial by Combat in Medieval France for Paramount. There's also the potential sequel to The Departed in the works based on an idea by original scripter William Monaghan.

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If this actually happens that'd be awesome, I'd love to see Scorcese take on a different genre

 

[deathshead2]

Maybe it will be good. Im not that big a fan of Scorsese. So maybe.

 

[Movies205]

Maybe it will be good. Im not that big a fan of Scorsese. So maybe.

Die

 

[KenK]

Hey, Wes Craven directed Music of the Heart! So, anything's possible.

 

[deathshead2]

Die

After you.

 

[JackBauer]

well, that'd be... interesting.

 

[Catman]

Im not that big a fan of Scorsese. So maybe.

Hey, Wes Craven directed Music of the Heart! So, anything's possible.

lol. True.

 

[Cinemaman]

Wow, that's going to be very intersting project especially the opening scene with DeNiro insulting DiCaprio

 

[Catman]

Scorsese ALMOST directed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, so this is something he's been interested in for a while.

 

[Max J Power]

He's never done a family film before, but I bet he could make a good one.

 

[Catman]

I'd bet too. He has proven time and time again that he can do something different. Remember Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore? Or After Hours? Or Last Temptation of Christ? Or Age of Innoncence?

 

[hammerhedd11]

A Martin Scorsese family film? So is that only like 3 f-words a minute?

 

[Warhammer]

I can wholeheartedly go to see this movie with high expectations and receive happyness after I see this movie. Scorcese is one of Hollywood's greatest directors of all-time, if not the greatest right now. (IMO, #2 after Spielberg)

 

[The Chairman]

This should be awesome.

 

[The Chairman]

Maybe it will be good. Im not that big a fan of Scorsese. So maybe.

Accomplished, well made cinema isn't your bag, is it?