Some Hollywood directors prove age is just a number as they keep working hard despite being way past the usual retirement age. Among them is Martin Scorsese, who took Mark Twainโs words; โage is a case of mind over matter. If you donโt mind it, it doesnโt matter,โ to heart when it comes to filmmaking.
Steven Spielberg, who will executive produce alongside Martin on Apple TV+ series Cape Fear is also not out of the game in his late seventies. Martin also has a lineup of projects for this year, reportedly including a film about Jesus, and a Frank Sinatra biopic featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.
Martin Scorsese is set to produce a Frank Sinatra biopic
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Although Sinatraโs daughter, Tina, who controls the late โOlโ Blue Eyesโโ estate, has yet to approve of the Frank Sinatra’s biopic, Martin has allegedly gone ahead to eye DiCaprio as the late singer, and Jennifer as his second wife, actress Ava Gardnerโ who famously disrupted Sinatraโs marriage to Tinaโs mother, Nancy Barbato. Sources say big studios and streaming platforms are looking to get on the project including Apple, which financed multiple Oscar-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon with $215 million. However, Sony seems to be most likely favored for this biopic.
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Aside from Martin, and Spielberg, who is likely making a UFO film with David Koepp, elderly creators in their field like Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, and Paul Schrader have new movies in the works as well. โIโm sure most artists want to keep working, but sometimes youโre not fortunate enough, lucky enough, good enough to stay in the arena. And if you donโt have that creative motivation, youโre just gonna get called out as an emblem of something that used to be,โ Paul, who wrote the screenplay for Martinโs Taxi Driver explained, adding that like everyone else, he โhad to keep working.โ
Martin is also looking to independently make a movie about Jesus based on Shลซsaku Endลโs 1973 book, A Life of Jesus. Sources say the Academy Award-winning director is considering casting Miles Teller, and Andrew Garfield as the lead or one of the disciples. Filming is scheduled to begin this year in Italy, Egypt, and Israel; however the latter may prove difficult due to ongoing unrest.
The upcoming 80-minute film is intended to โtake away the negatives associated with organized religion.โ The 81-year-old added that it โfocuses on Jesusโs core teachings in a way that explores the principles but doesnโt proselytize.โ
โRight now, โreligionโ, you say that word, and everyone is up in arms because itโs failed in so many ways. But that doesnโt mean necessarily that the initial impulse was wrong,” he told The Los Angeles Times a few months ago. “You may reject it. But it might make a difference in how you live your lifeโ even in rejecting it. Donโt dismiss it offhand. Thatโs all Iโm talking about.โ