Martin Scorsese would have planned a surprise thriller in New Orleans
The story would be around the murder of the local police chief David Hennessy, in 1890.
He has ideas in his head and always no intention to retire!
Martin Scorsese would have a new film not at all planned at the online schedule of sight. After World of Reelthe American director would have wanted to direct a historic thriller entitled temporarily Midnight Vendettawritten by the immense Eric Roth (Oscar -winning screenwriter of Forrest Gump,, Munich and more recently Dune).
The project, still confidential, would be added to the already very busy agenda of the filmmaker, who is already working on another thriller, this time in Hawaii, with Dwayne Johnson And Leonardo DiCAPRI in the casting. The film has just been bought by Disney. This film will revolve around a merciless Hawaiian godfather, compared to Jimmy Conway, the cult gangster embodied by Robert de Niro In The freed. Nothing less. Moreover, Martin Scorsese Also hump on a documentary around Pope Francis, still plans to adapt the book as a series The Devil in the White Citywith Keanu Reevesand to devote a feature film to the memory of his parents …
Yes, that is a lot for a director who is going to be 83 years old. But Scorse has never been so prolific. And so Midnight Vendetta could well be turned on the sly, to go back to the roots of the Italian mafia on American soil, more precisely in New Orleans at the very end of the 19th century. We are talking here about the beginnings of organized crime, with the arrival of Sicilian migrants in the port districts of the city, fleeing the misery and violence of their native land. But by taking in their old grudge and occult networks, they will light a powder.
The story would revolve around an event as unknown as it is burning: the murder in 1890 of the police chief David Hennessywhich, according to legend, has accused “the Dagoes” in his last breath. This drama provoked one of the greatest lynchings in the history of the United States: eleven men of Italian origin, some of which were suspected of mafia ties, were killed by a furious crowd who came to do justice itself. This bloody act propelled the Sicilian mafia into the American titles, and forever engraved New Orleans in the black legend of organized crime.
Casting side, Leonardo DiCAPRIfaithful accomplice of Scorsese, would be expected to play a central role. Nothing official for the moment, but its name circulates insistently. As usual.
