By 20th Century Studios has reportedly picked up Martin Scorsese’s next directorial effort, a Hawaii-set crime thriller with Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt attached to star.
Multiple studios and streamers were bidding for the project with Netflix believed to be the frontrunner the other week, but the Disney-owned former 20th Century Fox label has won the day which likely guarantee it a theatrical run.
Journalist and author Nick Bilton is writing the project set in turbulent 1960s & 1970s Hawaii and based on a real figure in what’s dubbed the last great American mob saga and tonally in line with Scorsese crowdpleasers like “Goodfellas” and “The Departed”.
It follows an aspiring and charismatic mob boss engaged in a brutal and bloody war with rival crime syndicates and mainland corporations to wrest absolute control of the island’s underworld in order to preserve his ancestral land.
All the aforementioned actors and Scorsese are attached to produce along with Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette and Rick Yorn. Blunt and Johnson reportedly brought the idea to Scorsese and DiCaprio who then enlisted Bilton.
Johnson and Garcia’s Seven Bucks lavel signed a first-look deal with Disney earlier this year to develop films for theatrical and streaming – this marking one of the first efforts of that deal.
Source: THR
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