Martin Scorsese can be Executive producing the buzzy “Cape Fear” adaptationBut the author is actually looking to get wet with another sea project: a Hawaii set True Crime Mob Drama by the lead role Dwayne Johnson.
Deadline first reported the yet title film. Indiewire can confirm from a source near the project that Johnson and his often partner Emily Blunt approached Scorsese with the feature, which then brought in actor/producer Leonardo DiCaprio. The script is ordered by Nick Bilton, who produced HBO documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.”
Drama will star Johnson as a truly future bully who fought rival crime to control the Hawaiian Islands in the 1960s. Scorsese, Johnson, Blunt, DiCaprio and Bilton will all produce, together with Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette and Rick Yorn.
Blunt and Johnson have worked together at “Jungle Cruise” and will star in Benny Safdie’s WWE BIOPIC “SMASHING MACHINE.” Johnson depicts MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Upcoming A24 movieand teased GQ That he hopes to be able to work with Safdie or A24 soon.
“It’s such a psychological thing here,” Johnson said. “But you know, from the moment I go out of my house I can’t hide. But in a way, when I could disappear in a movie like ‘Smashing Machine‘ And some of the other things now that we develop, where it allows me to disappear, with a Benny again or an A24 … man, I love it. “
And while a Johnson-Scorsese project seems like a shock, Johnson joked in a 2017 gq spoof video that he would start in “Goodfellas 2.”
At the same time, Scorsese has a host of other films in the works. The long -awaited feature “Devil in the White City” has been confirmedThis time in the 1900s, with Scorsese Directing and DiCaprio starring. The project was previously rewritten as a limited seriesWith Scorsese and DiCaprio Executive producing and Todd Field, which directs Keanu Reeves in the lead role. That iteration of the project was scrapped by Hulu 2023.
AUTEUR has also worked to independently finance an adaptation of Shūsaku Endōs “The Life of Jesus”, as He originally planned to shoot in 2024. His Frank Sinatra Biopic, Rumored In addition, to star DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence were protected.
