The actor-filmmaker duo is engaged in an adaptation of the non-fiction book ‘The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder’.
The actor-filmmaker duo is engaged in an adaptation of the non-fiction book ‘The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder’.
Leonardo DiCaprio and veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese have begun developing their seventh feature project.
The actor-filmmaker duo, who are already working on their sixth film “Killers of the Flower Moon,” are tied for an adaptation of the non-fiction book “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder” . Diversity.
The project will be directed by Scorsese and is set at Apple Original Films, which is also bankrolling “Killers of the Flower Moon”.
Written by New Yorker journalist David Grann, “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder” is scheduled to be published in April 2022.
The book tells the story of the 1700s British naval ship of the same name. During a secret mission to retrieve a gallon full of Spanish treasure, the crew ends a shipwreck on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia.
Trapped and forced to survive against the elements, the crew descends into chaos, and when they return to civilization they end up on opposite sides of an intense court martial with charges of murder and betrayal. .
Gran also wrote the book “Killers of the Flower Moon”, which investigates a series of murders of the Osage people that took place in the 1920s. Its film adaptation stars DiCaprio alongside veteran actors Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons.
DiCaprio has appeared in five of Scorsese’s films so far. Their partnership began with 2002’s “Gangs of New York”, and over the years, the two starred in films such as “The Aviator” (2004), “The Departed” (2006), “Shutter Island” (2010) and “The Aviator”. work done. Wolf of Wall Street” (2013).
In addition to the two Scorsese-helmed films, Apple is also developing a limited series adaptation of Studio Gran’s “The White Darkness,” starring Tom Hiddleston.
DiCaprio has recently been featured in the Adam McKay-directed Netflix film “Don’t Look Up,” while Scorsese’s final directorial effort was the 2019 film “The Irishman.”