Martin Scorsese returns to his film short beginnings with an all-star cast
Martin Scorsese is going to direct a short film with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Robert De Niro. This is a return to form in many ways. Scorsese will be working with his two most constant collaborators, De Niro and DiCaprio and will also be returning to short form film, like his earliest work.
This will be the first time that the three movie idols have worked together on a Scorsese picture. Plot details haven’t been leaked except that the new movie has a casino theme. The screenplay was written by Terence Winter, who wrote Wolf Of Wall Street and created Boardwalk Empire.
Martin Scorsese’s first film, which he made while in film school in 1963, was the short What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Shot in a week on one reel from a 16mm Bell & Howell Filmo camera, it was a visual comedy.
The future Goodfellas director finished his first gangster short, It’s Not Just You, Murray!, in 1964. The two-reeler was equal parts New Wave and Roaring Twenties and didn’t reveal that it was a gangster film until well into the picture.
Scorsese’s third film was the Vietnam war allegory, The Big Shave, which he finished in 1967. Basically it’s a guy getting a really really close shave. I mean this guy shaves his tonsils from the outside. Barely over five minutes, it was a cutting indictment.
RatPac Entertainment is producing the new short. The film will premiere at the opening of Melco-Crown's newest movie-themed resort Studio City in the gambling getaway Macau sometime next year.
SOURCE: Deadline
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