Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese Set Next Collaboration at Apple
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are teaming up for their seventh film together. This time, it will be an adaptation of David Grann’s non-fiction book The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder.
Apple Original Films has acquired the rights to the book and will be distributing its second movie with Scorsese. Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas are producing via Imperative Entertainment, as is Scorsese via his Sikelia Productions banner, and Leonardo DiCaprio with Jennifer Davisson via their Appian Way Productions. Richard Plepler will executive produce for Eden Productions.
Here is the official synopsis for the book:
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.
But then … six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang.
Scorsese and DiCaprio are now in post-production of Killers of the Flower Moon, which Apple is also producing and distributing, in partnership with Paramount Pictures. According to recent reports, the movie will not be released this year, but rather will have its global premiere during the Cannes Film Festival next spring. Paramount will give it a full-blown theatrical release thereafter. DiCaprio was most recently seen in Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, which despite receiving poor critic reviews, landed four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.
No production start date has been given as of yet.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
