Martin Scorsese could also be government producing the buzzy “Cape Concern” sequence adaptation, however the auteur is definitely seeking to get moist with a unique seaside challenge: a Hawaii-set true crime mob drama starring Dwayne Johnson.
Deadline first reported the yet-untitled movie. IndieWire can verify from a supply near the challenge that Johnson and his frequent collaborator Emily Blunt approached Scorsese with the characteristic, who then introduced in actor/producer Leonardo DiCaprio. The script is being commissioned by Nick Bilton, who produced HBO documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.”
The drama is about to star Johnson as a real-life aspiring mob boss who battled rival crime clans to manage the Hawaiian islands within the Sixties. Scorsese, Johnson, Blunt, DiCaprio, and Bilton will all government produce, together with Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette, and Rick Yorn.
Blunt and Johnson have labored collectively on “Jungle Cruise” and can co-star in Benny Safdie’s WWE biopic “Smashing Machine.” Johnson is portraying MMA fighter Mark Kerr within the upcoming A24 movie, and teased to GQ that he hopes to work with Safdie or A24 once more quickly.
“It’s such a psychological factor right here,” Johnson stated. “However you already know, from the second I stroll out of my home, I can’t cover. However in a manner, once I may disappear in a film like ‘Smashing Machine,’ and a few of the different issues now that we’re creating, the place it’ll permit me to vanish, with a Benny once more or an A24… Man, I like it.”
And whereas a Johnson-Scorsese challenge looks like a shock, Johnson joked in a 2017 GQ spoof video that he would star in “Goodfellas 2.”
In the meantime, Scorsese has a slew of different movies within the works. The long-awaited “Satan within the White Metropolis” characteristic has been re-confirmed, this time at twentieth Century, with Scorsese directing and DiCaprio starring. The challenge was beforehand re-tooled as a restricted sequence, with Scorsese and DiCaprio government producing and Todd Subject directing with Keanu Reeves within the lead position. That iteration of the challenge was scrapped by Hulu in 2023.
The auteur has additionally been working to independently finance an adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s “The Lifetime of Jesus,” which he initially deliberate to shoot in 2024. His Frank Sinatra biopic, rumored to star DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, was moreover shelved.