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Leonardo DiCaprio recently expressed his desire to collaborate with Martin Scorsese on a new project. It turns out it was just more than desire.
Puck News reports that the actor had several films lined up to begin production this summer, one famously being Damien Chazelle’s Evel Knievel biopic, which has stalled.
According to the outlet, the others were “a couple” of films with Scorsese with the aim of shooting one this Summer. However the project that was to shoot was scrapped before it ever began filming, and none of the other films made any leeway.
DiCaprio instead spent much of the summer in Europe with his significant other. That fits with indications a few weeks back that Scorsese’s next is likely the Hawaii-set crime drama also starring Dwayne Johnson that is expected to film next year.
DiCaprio and Scorsese have worked together on six different movies over more than two decades including “Gangs of New York,” “The Aviator,” “The Departed,”
“Shutter Island,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Killers of the Flower Moon”.
In fact, only three films Scorsese has directed since 2000 have not had DiCaprio – “Hugo,” “Silence” and “The Irishman”. Scorsese has been linked to a number of potential projects, the most notable and ambitious being survival tale “The Wager” based on David Grann’s non-fiction book.