Killers of the Flower Moon finished its production and Martin Scorsese is already preparing for the next film. He will once again find Leonardo DiCaprio there.
We long to discover the new film by Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moonthree years after the release of his The Irishman on Netflix. This astonishing western, which promises unheard of, according to its screenwriter Eric Roth, was supposed to be released in November 2022 on Apple TV + according to the words of the screenwriter. Too bad for us, it will probably take a little more patience since 2023 will finally be the year of Scorsese’s return and his reunion with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. It is also the first time that the filmmaker will have his two favorite actors in one of his films at the same time.
Scorsese does not seem ready to stop his collaborations with partners to whom he is attached. His creative thirst does not dry up and his return in 2023 could well pave the way for a good number of new feature films from him and in familiar company. Indeed, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Leonardo Dicaprio would have already joined the director’s next filmalso funded by Apple.
The Wager will be the title of this new collaboration between the actor and the filmmaker. And despite his strong criticism of the streaming model, Martin Scorsese seems satisfied with the funding he has obtained from Apple TV + since it is on the platform that his future feature film will be broadcast. In addition to finding Dicaprio in front of his camera and staying at Apple, it will also be an adaptation of another novel by David Grann, the author of Killers of the Flower Moon. A less expatriation for the filmmaker, therefore.
Curiously enough, the book in question, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, has not yet been published and is expected in American bookstores in April 2023. The rights to the work having been immediately recovered by Apple, The Wager by Martin Scorsese will therefore be an almost immediate adaptation of a book that has just hit the shelves and of which we do not yet know anything about the success or the quality.
“Finally I am… But if the salary also follows.“
The Wager will be a historical epic set in the 1740s. It will tell the story of 30 sailors arriving on the shores of Brazil and being welcomed as heroes. There, they tell their epic story before it is discovered, months later, that the famous sailors were in fact only mutineers. A story that looks a priori wild and epic according to the words of the editor, who speaks of an exciting shipwreck story about human behavior.
Martin Scorsese will sign with this film his seventh collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio which will perhaps be followed by an eighth if his biopic adapting the life of President Franklin Roosevelt is confirmed one day.
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese will make an epic movie about a shipwreck