Drama The Rock, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Emily Blunt join Scorsese's new Crime Drama

[Aesop Rocks]

Town Says Aloha To A Hawaii-Set ‘Goodfellas’ Meets ‘The Departed:’ Scorsese, DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson & Emily Blunt Top Crime Drama Package

Martin Scorsese is directing a Hawaii-set crime drama that will star Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt.

deadline.com

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

If Scorsese gets him to play someone other than the Rock in this film, then give that man another Oscar.

 

[Kane52630]

plot:

To be written by Nick Bilton, the film focuses on a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands. It was a bloody battle, the kind of terrain Scorsese covered in both Goodfellas and The Departed. In 1960s and 70s Hawaii, this formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to build the islands’ most powerful criminal empire, waging a brutal war against mainland corporations and rival syndicates while fighting to preserve his ancestral land. It’s based on the untold true story of a man who fought to preserve his homeland through a ruthless quest for absolute power — igniting the last great American mob saga, where the war for cultural survival takes place in the unlikeliest of places: paradise.

 

[emielaen]

Johnson is gonna get a nom for The Smashing Machine. Mark it.

 

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[Deck Rickard]

Is Scorsese mentally incapable of making a movie without DiCaprio and/or De Niro? I like them but… ****’s sake, give other actors a shot once in a while.

 

[Da-Scribe]

I mean Hugo and Silence weren’t that long ago.

 

[Drizzle]

He did go 24 years without working with De Niro between Casino and The Irishman but it's fair to say he's a little too fixated on DiCaprio. He's been the lead in six of his last nine movies.

 

[DarkKnight88]

To be fair, I think these projects get the kind of budgets they do because DiCaprio is the star. So not only does Scorsese like working with him, he gets all the money he wants at the same time.

Like we’re getting a 140M Paul Thomas Anderson movie because of DiCaprio.

At this point, is DiCaprio tied with DeNiro for most collabs with Scorsese?

 

[Kane52630]

At this point are DiCaprio and DeNiro tied for most collabs with Scorsese?

DeNiro has 11
DiCaprio has 7 (8 including this one)

 

[Drizzle]

To be fair, I think these projects get the kind of budgets they do because DiCaprio is the star. So not only does Scorsese like working with him, he gets all the money he wants at the same time.

Like we’re getting a 140M Paul Thomas Anderson movie because of DiCaprio.

At this point, is DiCaprio tied with DeNiro for most collabs with Scorsese?

Killers of the Flower Moon did have an insane budget but that probably had more to do with Apple having "f you" money to burn than anything.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Leo is the main reason we’ve gotten so many Scorsese flicks greenlit to begin with. Blunt gets good material and look out. Rock doing serious acting is great to see.

 

[Luigi]

Scorsese is probably going to give Dwayne a wild hairpiece.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Eh, I don’t think this will ever get made. I hate to be that dude, cause it hurts my soul to say outloud, but Marty is on borrowed time and will only work on passion projects from now till the end. This ain’t happening just like that Jamie Fox Tyson flick ain’t happening, just like that Jonah Hill/ Garcia biopic ain’t happening, nor that Devil in The White City etc.

 

[DyeLorean]

DiCaprio has been playing it way too safe. Haven't been excited about watching a performace from him in a long time.
That being said, the idea of sharing screen with The Rock is hilarious.

 

[Drizzle]

DiCaprio has been playing it way too safe. Haven't been excited about watching a performace from him in a long time.
That being said, the idea of sharing screen with The Rock is hilarious.

I don't think we're going to see him on a bender like we did ten years ago when he went from playing a psychotic racist slave owner to a coked out quaalude popping finance bro to a bear-fighting mountain man over the course of three years. He was hungry for that Oscar.

 

[DyeLorean]

I don't think we're going to see him on a bender like we did ten years ago when he went from playing a psychotic racist slave owner to a coked out quaalude popping finance bro to a bear-fighting mountain man over the course of three years. He was hungry for that Oscar.

I just went to the wiki page and noticed he's on the next PTA film. Don't know what he's playing there but that might be interesting.
His partnership with Scorsese is starting to bore me at this point.

 

[emielaen]

BTS pics of the PTA joint looks like a 70s-80s style one-man actioner. DiCaprio running around with shades, a big ass moustache, a trench coat and a shotgun. It's supposedly one of his more "accessible" films. A straight up action thriller chase film almost.

 

[Pennywise]

20th Century Lands Martin Scorsese Hawaii-Set Crime Thriller Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt

Nick Bilton is penning the script, set in the '60s and '70s.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Killers of the Flower Moon did have an insane budget but that probably had more to do with Apple having "f you" money to burn than anything.

Most of his movies do. Shutter Island was "cheap" at 80m. Silence, a passion project, was 40m. Even the Departed in 00 dollars cost 90m. I think everything else since Gangs has been at least 100m.

Not complaining. He makes the best movies. But yeah, his movies aren't cheap and Leo probably helps a lot with the funding.

 

[CaptainWagner]

20th Century Lands Martin Scorsese Hawaii-Set Crime Thriller Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt

Nick Bilton is penning the script, set in the '60s and '70s.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Glad it will be getting a proper theatrical release. But it's a bummer this is probably his next project. All the other ideas he's been circling sounded way more interesting.