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Peanut80
Bridget Kearns
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Comments Scorsese made to Roger Friedman about "Sinatra "
| Quote: | Even though Leonardo DiCaprio has been named as Martin Scorsese’s first choice to play Frank Sinatra, he seems like he’s still looking around.
“When I see the new script soon, and meet with Tina Sinatra, we’ll start to think about it,” Scorsese told me last night. “He has to age from a teenager to his 70s, so we may have to have a few people play him. I don’t know.” |
http://showbiz411.blogs.thr.com/scorsese-sinatra-leonardo-dicaprio-george-harriso/ |
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Maggie Moonpie
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, peanut
More from Scorsese from this interview:
| Quote: | Have you made any progress on the casting for your Sinatra biopic?
Not yet, but my next step with the project is, when we go to California for the opening of Shutter Island, to have meetings about it there. Which will be in February, I think. I've sort of gone on to these other projects — I'm working on a documentary about George Harrison. And finishing up a pilot with my editor, the pilot for Boardwalk Empire, which is the series for HBO for next year about the 1920's Atlantic City.
Prohibition was important in kick-starting the women's movement ...
That's in our first scene. It is a temperance-union meeting and the treasurer of Atlantic City, Steve Buscemi, is talking about how his father was a terrible drunk and how he had to help his family survive. "Thank God we live in a country where tonight is the night Prohibition is being put into effect as law. And soon we might just have such a forward country as to give women the vote!" And all the women are applauding and then, of course, he goes out and takes a drink afterward. [Laughs] But the Sinatra thing, I hope to really start having meetings when I go to open the film [Shutter Island]. Leo certainly ... Naturally I really like working with him.
What will the Sinatra movie be like?
The interesting thing about the Sinatra script — which is by Phil Alden Robinson — is that it spans his life from being a young child to his twenties, his thirties to his late seventies
So it starts out with him in New Jersey as a little boy?
No it inter-cuts everything throughout time.
So it starts out with him old and flashes back?
Not really, no. Got to find another way to do that. All those things came to mind, but have been done too much.
With the Dean Martin biopic you'd once planned to make, you had very specific ideas for who would play the Rat Pack (John Travolta as Sinatra, Hugh Grant as Peter Lawford, Adam Sandler as Joey Bishop, etc.). Will you have any of those actors finally play those roles in your Sinatra movie?
I'm not sure now. That was almost ten years ago and the people we were thinking of are older. The casting is a very tricky thing, because you can't say, "You're going to play Sinatra, you're going to play Dean Martin," because who can play them, you know? You have to do something else, you're not going to find that yet.
Will the actor playing Sinatra sing?
I'm not sure yet, but I would think since there's no one who can sing like Sinatra, you have to use his voice. |
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