Martin Scorsese could close his filmography with Killers of the Flower Moon. His new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons and lily gladstone it will be seen this week at the Cannes Film Festival and will hit theaters on October 20 with great anticipation.

It was precisely in an interview granted to Deadline before the premiere in Cannes where Scorsese has addressed the horizon of retirement. Director of Taxi Driver He will be 81 years old next November And while he hasn’t lost an ounce of energy talking passionately about film, he laments being in the final phase of his career.

When the interviewer asks Scorsese if he feels energized to start shooting again, the filmmaker replies: “I have to. I wish I could take an eight week break and make one movie at a time. The world has opened up before me, but it’s too late. It’s too late”.

“I’m old,” Scorsese continues. “I read things, I see things. I want to tell stories, and I don’t have time. [Akira] Kurosawa, when George [Lucas] and Steven [Spielberg] they gave him the Oscar [honorífico en 1990]He said that only then was he beginning to see the possibilities of what cinema could be, but it was too late for him. He was 83 years old. At that moment I wondered what he had meant. Now I know what it means.”

Scorsese’s Next After ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Despite the melancholic tone of this conversation, it should be remembered that Scorsese was actually yes it has several projects after Killers of the Flower Moon. It’s not clear what stage of development they’re in or what he’ll be moving into immediately after this movie, but as he says himself, it’s clear he has no shortage of stories to tell.

One with quite a few possibilities is the historical drama The Wager, which is once again based on a work by David Grann, author of the book that adapts Killers of the Flower Moon, and in which he would collaborate again with DiCaprio. It is about the trial that was held in the middle of the 18th century against 30 shipwrecked rescued on the coast of Brazil after surviving the sinking of a British ship; six months later, another group of surviving sailors accused them of being mutineers.

Additionally, Scorsese has also spoken or been linked to other upcoming projects. Again with his inseparable DiCaprio, he could put the actor to play Theodore Roosevelt in a biopic of the 26th president of the United States. Another biopic could reunite the director with Jonah Hill within a project based on the trajectory of the psychedelic rock group Grateful Dead.

How many movies has Martin Scorsese directed?

The 26 fiction feature films and 16 documentaries that make up the filmography of Martin Scorsese not only shape a collection of essential masterpieces to understand the evolution of American cinema over the last five decades, but, thanks to the author’s encyclopedic knowledge and passion for cinema, serve as a communicating vessel with the entire history of the film medium.

A bridge between the past of cinema, its present and future which is an essential initiation path for any movie buff with a huge number of titles, images and scenes that have transcended the limits of the big screen and are now part of popular culture. bad streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Wild bull (1980), The last temptation of Christ (1988), One of ours (1990), The Age of Innocence (1993), casino (nineteen ninety five), Departed (2006), The wolf of Wall Street (2013) or the Irish (2019), among many others, are a legacy only available to the greatest filmmakers.

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