Leonardo DiCaprio Cast as Music Star in New Martin Scorsese Film

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Martin Scorsese has found his muse, and her name is Leo

Since their first collaboration more than twenty years ago, Martin Scorsese And Leonardo DiCaprio seem to have found the key to making recipes. Together, the duo has achieved no less than six feature filmswith to start Gangs of New York in 2002, followed by The Aviator in 2004, then Infiltrators (The Departed in original version) in 2006, followed by Shutter Island in 2010, The wolf of Wall Street in 2013, and finally Killers of the Flower Moon in 2023. With all that, Scorsese And DiCaprio have amassed more than 1.5 billion dollars. A rather lucrative partnership, then.

In addition to their financial success, the projects of Leonardo DiCaprio And Martin Scorsese have received numerous nominations and quite a few awards, including 31 Oscar nominations And 9 victoriesof which 3 Oscars For Infiltrators. And even if Killers of the Flower Moon was preceded by Poor Creatures (Poor Things in VO) and Oppenheimer at the 2024 Oscars, the film was nevertheless nominated in 10 categoriesand the relationship between DiCaprio And Scorsese continues, since the American director has already planned to renew his collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio in a biopic dedicated to Frank Sinatrathe famous musician behind Strangers in the Night.

It's raining biopics in Hollywood

According to Variety, Martin Scorsese was already working on this biopic a few years ago, but was forced to abandon it in 2017 because the family of Frank Sinatra did not want to grant him the rights to the singer's image. Besides, the musician's daughter, Tina Sinatrahas still not given his agreement, but it seems that Scorsese counting on the recent popularity of biopics to tip the scales. Indeed, biopics have been popular for several years in Hollywood, with Elvis who puts Austin Butler in the shoes of the King in 2022, Maestro who sees Bradley Cooper play the composer Leonard Bernstein in 2023, but also Bob Marley: One Lovewhich met with success at the start of the year, with Kingsley Ben Adir in the role of the famous Jamaican musician.

But the sudden wave of biopics is far from stopping there, since Back to Blacka film where Marisa Abela lends her features to the famous singer Amy Winehouse, is currently in theaters in France. In addition, a feature film on Bob Dylan is in preparation with Timothée Chalamet as headliner but also in production. With all that, Martin Scorseseshould have all the cards in hand to obtain the rights for his film on Sinatra. And if we are to believe the success of his other collaborations with Leonardo DiCaprio, the result should be rather spectacular. In the meantime, you can find several of their films on myCANALas Killers of the Flower Moon And The wolf of Wall Streetbut also on Netflixwho proposes Shutter Island in its catalog.