Unstoppable Scorsese, a film about Frank Sinatra with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence (Ava Gardner)

A film about Jesus and one about Frank Sinatra (interpreted by Leonardo Dicaprio). If there is something that is not missing Martin Scorsese it is the wildest imagination. Then we’ll talk about the implementation another time. Meanwhile, as he points out Varietythe 81-year-old author of Taxi drivers, recently returned to attend the Oscar night (10 nominations for Killers of the flower moon and “zero tituli”), he intends to bring to the big screen both a film about Jesus Christ and one about The Voice (who for many Italian Americans was directly a god).

Variety explains that Scorsese “is trying to circumvent the studio system to finance independently Life of Jesus, based on Shūsaku Endō’s 1973 book.” Already in 2016 Scorsese brought another Endo text to the cinema, transforming it into the unfortunate one The silence. To wear habit and sandals the names of are mentioned Andrew Garfield And Miles Teller (Whiplash).

Variety reports some details from a source that it does not cite, claiming that there is already a production plan: starting at the end of the year in the land of Israel (but are we sure? With all the current war upheavals? Well?), Italy and Egypt. Variety also says that a firm no comment came from Scorsese’s entourage. The biopic on Sinatra, however, would already see DiCaprio ready to become all the rage in a My way it’s a Fly me to the moon. “The Sinatra project”, as Variety calls it, already risks some setbacks because Tina Sinatra, daughter of the legendary crooner, controls the entire package of her father’s image and music rights and to date has still not given any consent to film a film about dad Frank. As always, Scorsese already has a couple of first-rate protagonists ready: in addition to his beloved DiCaprio, there would be one Jennifer Lawrence as Sinatra’s second wife, the actress Ava Gardner. It was Gardner who broke up Sinatra’s marriage to Nancy Barbato, Tina’s mother. And if on the heir’s side we are still at sea, Variety swears that the ones to convince her could be either Apple – which financed Killers of the Flower Moon with 215 million dollars and which would like to stay in business with Scorsese – but above all Sony which “favored” party to grab the project.