Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Emily Blunt will star in a new drama movie directed by Martin Scorsese.
According to a recent report by Deadline, Johnson, DiCaprio, and Blunt are all going to star in a new Scorsese movie, which currently has “multiple bids” from studios that “are either on the table or are fast mobilizing.”
Johnson and Blunt, who both soon be seen in Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, brought the idea to Scorsese and DiCaprio. The four of them then enlisted Nick Bilton to write the script.
What will the new Martin Scorsese movie be about?
The movie will focus on a “ruthless Hawaiian crime boss” who is based on a real-life figure.
Deadline’s description further reads, “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.”
It’s not immediately clear how large of roles Johnson, DiCaprio, and Blunt will have in the film. The three of them will produce the movie alongside Scorsese, Bilton, Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette, and Rick Yorn.
DiCaprio has worked with Scorsese many times before, their most recent collaboration being 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Blunt starred in 2009’s The Young Victoria, which was produced by Scorsese, while Johnson has never worked with Scorsese until now.
Source: Deadline
