With Martin Scorsese’s psychological thriller, Shutter Island less than two weeks away from its release, the next thing everybody wants to know from the Scorsese camp is, what’s next?According to The Playlist, Scorsese will be making his first children’s movie The Invention of Hugo Cabret, an adaptation of Brian Selznick’s best-selling children’s historical fiction book set in 1930s Paris. But just how child-friendly this movie will be is entirely up to chance, for as Scorsese’s work admits, he does not abide by any rules of genre, let alone his own:
“[Scorsese] has for the past decade been making movies with the jittery vigor of a beginner, trying on different genres, different sounds, different actors (with Mr. DiCaprio as a constant) in a valiant attempt to keep himself sufficiently disoriented to create his kind of something else.” (New York Times)
The long-awaited 17th centuryJesuit Priest drama Silence that was set to star Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio Del Toro and Gael Garcia Bernal will be next. Followed by a project with Robert DeNiro entitled Irishman, the mob drama that was formally known as I Heard You Paint Horses. Silence is apparently mob slang for contract killings and DeNiro’s character in the film is named Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran, who is reputed to have carried out more than twenty five mob murders.
The final project, which may in fact be the first to be released, is Scorsese’s George Harrison documentary which may or may not get a theatrical release but is slated to be released this year.
Of Scorsese’s multiple upcoming projects, which are you most excited for?