Martin Scorsese Casts Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, and Emily Blunt in Hawaii-Set GOODFELLAS Meets THE DEPARTED Film
Martin Scorsese is moving forward on an interesting new film project, with a cast that includes Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt.
The description of the film reads: “Imagine Robert De Niro’s Jimmy the Gent character from Goodfellas, but as a ruthless Hawaiian crime boss, based on a real figure, who battled encroaching rivals for control of organized crime in Hawaii.”
The movie focuses on “a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands. It was a bloody battle, the kind of terrain Scorsese covered in both Goodfellas and The Departed.
In 1960s and 70s Hawaii, “this formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to build the islands’ most powerful criminal empire, waging a brutal war against mainland corporations and rival syndicates while fighting to preserve his ancestral land.
It’s based on the untold true story of “a man who fought to preserve his homeland through a ruthless quest for absolute power — igniting the last great American mob saga, where the war for cultural survival takes place in the unlikeliest of places: paradise.”
This sounds like it’ll be a great project and it’s pretty wild to see that Johnson and DiCaprio will be starring together in a Scorsese film. I like it! I like that Johnson is taking on film projects like this that aren’t his usual flare.
The movie marks another collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaptio who worked together on Killers of Flower Moon, The Aviator, The Departed, Gangs of New York, and The Wolf of Wall Street. This also marks a reunion for Blunt and Johnson, who worked together on Jungle Cruise for Disney.
The film will be written by Nick Bilton.
Source: Deadline
