Dwayne Johnson & Leonardo DiCaprio’s Martin Scorsese Movie Gets Exciting Update

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Dwayne Johnson & Leonardo DiCaprio’s Martin Scorsese Movie Gets Exciting Update

Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese‘s upcoming Hawaii-set project with Dwayne Johnson and Leonardo DiCaprio has finally received a major update. The untitled movie will reportedly be based on real life mob boss Wilford “Nappy” Pulawa, who was the leader of the largest organized crime syndicate on the Hawaiian Islands.

What’s the latest Martin Scorsese movie update?

Disney is currently in the final negotiations to acquire the rights to Scorsese’s next crime drama movie, which will center around a “a ruthless Hawaiian crime boss” being likened to Robert De Niro’s Jimmy the Gent character from the Goodfellas. Besides Johnson and DiCaprio, Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt is also attached to star in the film.

Scorsese will be directing from a screenplay written by Nick Bilton. It will be produced by Scorsese, Johnson, Blunt, DiCaprio, Bilton, Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette and Rick Yorn. At the moment, the project has no official title, production start date, and release date yet.

“The film focuses on a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands,” Deadline’s description of the movie reads. “It was a bloody battle, the kind of terrain Scorsese covered in both Goodfellas and The Departed. In 1960s and 70s Hawaii, this formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to build the islands’ most powerful criminal empire, waging a brutal war against mainland corporations and rival syndicates while fighting to preserve his ancestral land. It’s based on the untold true story of a man who fought to preserve his homeland through a ruthless quest for absolute power — igniting the last great American mob saga, where the war for cultural survival takes place in the unlikeliest of places: paradise.”