The Rock is teaming up with another legendary director.
Ahead of his turn as Mark Kerr in A24's upcoming film, 'The Smashing Machine', Deadline is now reporting on a new project for the 'Final Boss'.
According to the outlet, there is a package going around Hollywood for a Martin Scorsese-directed crime movie starring Rock, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt. The Hawaii-set film is being described as 'The Departed' meets 'Goodfellas', two iconic films in Scorsese's filmography. Nick Bilton (The Idol, Fake Famous) is currently attached to pen the script.
For a brief description of the film, Deadline writes:
...The film focuses on a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands. It was a bloody battle, the kind of terrain Scorsese covered in both Goodfellas and The Departed. In 1960s and 70s Hawaii, this formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to build the islands’ most powerful criminal empire, waging a brutal war against mainland corporations and rival syndicates while fighting to preserve his ancestral land. It’s based on the untold true story of a man who fought to preserve his homeland through a ruthless quest for absolute power — igniting the last great American mob saga, where the war for cultural survival takes place in the unlikeliest of places: paradise.
The outlet also states that the duo of Emily Blunt and The Rock were the ones who brought the idea to Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. Blunt has shared the screen with 'The Great One' many times before, including in the aforementioned Mark Kerr biopic, 'The Smashing Machine'.
Fightful will continue to update fans as more updates surface on this project.
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