With filmmaker Martin Scorsese turning 81 next month, age is catching up to him and he’s aware of it.
During promotion for his new film “Killers of the Flower Moon,” he’s suggested he may only have “one or two more films” in him left, but plans to keep going as long as he can.
A film adaptation of David Grann’s nonfiction book “The Wager” looks to be his next work, a part courtroom drama and part seafaring tale that follows the 1741 mutiny after the shipwreck of the HMS Wager.
Speaking with Indiewire, Scorsese says he needs to take a break after promoting ‘Flower Moon’ but is also concerned about the difficulties of shooting on the water. So much so that he’s considering doing something he hasn’t done before – have a co-director:
“We’ll get working with writers and see if we get it on the page. And maybe it’s something I could co-direct, so to speak. It’ll be difficult [to shoot a movie out on the water.] But there are ways now, with certain technical things we could do, to make it bearable. Depending on how we get the script together.
He says he’s not sure which role he wants Leonardo DiCaprio to play in his film as there are “a lot of good parts”. Apple Studios is backing the film which begins when a patched-together boat with thirty emaciated men landed on the coast of Brazil.
The men claim to be the survivors of a British ship that crashed onto an island in South America’s Patagonia region. Their tales of surviving the seas and elements make them heroes.
Six months later, another and even more dilapidated vessel is found off the coast of Chile. This ship, carrying three survivors, claims the other men were actually mutineers.
As accusations fly, the British Admiralty set a special trial to uncover the truth of what exactly happened on the island.
