Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt Eyeing Hawaii-Set Crime Film for Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese is looking to make a splash with a star-studded crime movie set in Hawaii.
A new package that hit the town would star Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt. Scorsese would direct the feature from a script by journalist and author Nick Bilton.
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The fact-based untitled movie is said to be in the mold of Scorsese’s Goodfellas and The Departed and center on a mob boss vying for control of the Hawaiian islands in the 1960s and 1970s.
Scorsese, Johnson, Blunt, DiCaprio, Bilton, Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette and Rick Yorn serve as producers.
Bilton is known for such previous projects as HBO’s The Idol and the Netflix series Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal.
The Hollywood Reporter reported last month that DiCaprio was in talks to star in a Scorsese-directed adaptation of Erik Larson’s best-selling book The Devil in the White City. The pair are known for a number of high-profile feature collaborations, including Killers of the Flower Moon, The Wolf of Wall Street, Shutter Island, The Departed, The Aviator and Gangs of New York.
Johnson and Blunt are set to star in A24’s forthcoming biographical movie The Smashing Machine for director Benny Safdie, with Johnson playing real-life former wrestler Mark Kerr. Johnson and Blunt previously shared the screen in Disney’s 2021 film Jungle Cruise.
DiCaprio’s next movie is the untitled forthcoming feature from Paul Thomas Anderson that Warner Bros. is scheduled to release later this year.
Deadline was first to report about the new project.
Mia Galuppo contributed to this report.
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