Scorsese Out, Demme In for Marley doc

[Dark Donnie]

Jonathan Demme is taking over from Martin Scorsese as the director of an authorized Bob Marley documentary.
Docu, produced by the Marley family's Tuff Gong Pictures and Steve Bing's Shangri-La Entertainment, has a target release date of Feb. 6, 2010, the 65th anniversary of Marley's birth. Fortissimo Films is handling international sales.

Scorsese, who announced in February that the untitled pic would be the follow-up to his Rolling Stones concert pic "Shine a Light," dropped out for scheduling reasons.

Demme has a long history of music-related pics, chronicling the Talking Heads in "Stop Making Sense," Robyn Hitchcock in "Storefront Hitchcock" and Neil Young in "Heart of Gold." He is editing a concert film, "Neil Young Trunk Show."

"I am thrilled and humbled by this extraordinary opportunity to participate in fashioning a motion picture that can serve as a worthy vessel for the spiritual and musical brilliance of Bob Marley," Demme said in a statement.

Could open up Scorsese to do Wolf of Wall Street. Glad Demme hopped on, as he has previous experience with documentaries.

 

[Rac]

Could open up Scorsese to do Wolf of Wall Street. Glad Demme hopped on, as he has previous experience with documentaries.

Eh? Scorsese has done 7 documentaries before.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Eh? Scorsese has done 7 documentaries before.

Not what I was saying.....my point was I was glad that Demme signed on as he had previous experience with Music Docs rather then have have someone come on with none.

I know Scorsese has experience, I've seen the Dylan one, looking to see the Stones one next.

 

[Rac]

Ah, sorry. My apologies.