We are 18 months away from seeing Martin Scorsese’s first ever feature film as a Oscar winning director but it’s ok to get excited. After all, if you can’t get excited for a Scorsese picture then when the hell can ya?
The Boston Herald carry our first look at Ashecliffe, set in the 50’s and based on Dennis Lehane’s crime novel Shutter Island about a U.S. Marshal (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
Can’t wait to see what Scorsese has done with DiCaprio this time around. Leo has been growing from the naviety of his acting in Gangs of New York, to a measured performance as Howard Hughes in The Aviator all the way to a truly great cinematic performance in The Departed, cruelly dissed at the Oscars.
And just wait until you hear the rest of the cast…
Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Max von Sydow, Jackie Earle Haley, Patricia Clarkson and Elias Kosteas. Ok.. so if you take away Kingsley, they might not be the most recognisable faces on film these days to the average Joe-Smo, but some of the best acting talent today reside right there.
This won’t be the last time we talk about this film in the run up to next year, that’s for sure.
source – /film
One Comment
Am I the only one who thought The Departed was a joke? Jack was the only thing interesting at all in that film, and it certainly ended when he did. It was probably one of Marty’s worst films and he got an Oscar for it; more for the politics that he’d never won one, and it just so happened that he had a mediocre flick the academy could get away with awarding.
I can understand looking forward to the Scorsese-DiCaprio team working together again, but hop off The Departed’s dick. A great film that deserves heralding doesn’t tie up its loose ends by a gunshot circle jerk.