“The Irishman” has been noted as recently as this year in The New York Post to be well on it’s way. This is possibly the least concrete work on the list, but it’s been in talks for a few years now.
According to the Huffington Post, Martin Scorsese may make a fictional biopic on BILL CLINTON, who himself could offer insight into his time as our 42nd president. Next up, staying in the vein of cable presentations: a made-for-HBO biopic about the one and only Bill Clinton. – It’s like picking presents from under the tree. This all makes sense, considering the often-overwhelming use of rock music in a majority of his movies. Reread those music doc credentials if you have to. Hopefully the pilot will air some time this year. Mick Jagger is working with him on this, and apparently so are Ray Romano and Olivia Wilde, among others.
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– The aforementioned music documentaries leads me to our next installment of forthcoming Scorsese work: a semi-documentary cable TV series chronicling the cocaine-fueled escapades of 1970s rock stars. One of the greatest directors of all time covers some of the greatest music of all time (classicalists, let me have this one…) yet again. Count works on The Band (“The Last Waltz”), The Rolling Stones (“Shine A Light”), Bob Dylan (“No Direction Home”), an expansive history of blues music (“Scorsese Presents: The Blues”), George Harrison (“Living In A Material World”) and Elvis Presley (“Elvis On Tour”). Plus, Scorsese has more than enough experience covering the greatest musicians of the 20th century. The man was, apart from the musical icon, a drunken mob-tied mystery of bad-ass machismo, which are all trademark elements for almost every Scorsese picture. If you know anything about the life of Frank Sinatra, you have to be excited for this. We’ve heard about this in the past, but he told just a few months ago that the “project is still going strong.” It has bounced around a few writers and everyone from Johnny Depp and George Clooney to Leo have been mentioned in the portrayal of Ol’ Blue Eyes. Let’s take a look at what else he has coming up. We’re still coming off of the high from “The Wolf of Wall Street” and he has heavy screen time in the new Roger Ebert biopic “Life Itself,” but it appears that’s just the tip of the iceberg for old Marty’s slate of projects.
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If anyone were to ask me, about three days out of the week my favorite movie is “Taxi Driver.” Every time he publicly announces a forthcoming project my anticipation boils over.
It was a movie that showed me what they could really do for an audience, and I’ve never looked at them the same since. “The Departed” got the ball rolling for me back in 2006. Martin Scorsese is largely responsible for my love of movies.