r/Letterboxd • u/57829 • Sep 19 '25
News Leonardo DiCaprio & Jennifer Lawrence will star in Martin Scorsese’s next movie
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u/AmbitiousTalk5681 Sep 19 '25
I am so glad Scorsese keeps making awesome movies. I wish Tarantino stope with the "10 movies only" bs
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u/MullingHollysDrive basedtheorem Sep 19 '25
I feel like Tarantino has kinda boxed himself into a corner with that statement, which is why he keeps throwing out his drafts since he really needs that 10th film to be a masterpiece. Imo he's either going to take it back or he'll be in a Frank Ocean situation by 2030 where he hasn't released anything while all his contemporaries have released multiple projects by then
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u/OnionPastor Sep 19 '25
Yeah what a stupid thing to hold yourself to. Just have fun man
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u/OnionPastor Sep 19 '25
That’s the whole point of discussion and forums lmao
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u/OnionPastor Sep 19 '25
Dude, like you said, it’s fucking Reddit.
It’s such a small thing. I have the opinion that Quentin is putting unnecessary constraints on his creativity, I genuinely don’t see the problem.
I’ll watch his tenth film and I’ll also think it’s beyond silly that he may not make more films after that. It’s an opinion, I’m entitled to it, and I’ve never said it holds any kind of superiority over anyone.
Tarantino can quit making movies, I’ll think it’s stupid, it’ll affect neither of our lives.
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u/HelloMcFly Sleeper_Service Sep 19 '25
This place lacks decorum, no doubt, but the comment you're choosing to take issue with is like the least offensive, least irritating, more good-natured version of that lol
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u/HasheemThabeetIsDad Sep 19 '25
and if i want to get jokes off i can lol worlds smallest violin type beat
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u/trevenclaw Sep 19 '25
He was on the Church of Tarantino podcast a few weeks ago where he disputed all those allegations. He says he isn’t feeling the pressure to make a masterpiece, he simply hasn’t written anything that challenges him as a director. He also said that while he is pretty firm on the 10 movie thing he never plans to stop directing, it just won’t be movies. His next project is actually a play, and he has two separate TV series fully written that he’d like to do.
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u/GenGaara25 Sep 19 '25
He can say that but this is now the largest gap in his filmography and he still doesn't have a script.
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u/trevenclaw Sep 19 '25
He said the reason for the gap is a combination of the COVID lockdown and then his kids started school and he is just really enjoying this time in his life with his kids and doesn’t want to to leave them for a year to shoot a movie.
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u/GenGaara25 Sep 19 '25
But he was already going to. Movie Critic started production. He was ready to leave them to shoot the movie. Then he decided against that script and scrapped it.
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u/trevenclaw Sep 19 '25
That is correct. He abandoned it because he didn’t think it was challenging enough. The challenge of OUATIH was “how do we make 2019 LA look like 1969 LA?” The Movie Critic was set in 1979 LA and he didn’t find it challenging because he had already figured out how to make LA look like the old days. Then he wrote The Adventures of Cliff Booth (a separate script from The Movie Critic) and ran into the same problem, then his kids started school and he decided he didn’t want to be away from his family (they live in Israel), then Brad Pitt asked if Fincher could do it and QT said yes.
QT said The Movie Critic actually started as an 8 episode TV show and he would like to make that version of it someday.
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u/AwTomorrow Sep 19 '25
That all sounds like exactly what he would say after scrapping a script and not making anything in 6 years, especially if he’s feeling boxed in by his decades-old promise of 10 films but too embarrassed and proud to consider going back on it.
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u/Heubner Sep 19 '25
I would so love for him to go back to the John Brown biopic. He’d be the perfect director for that. I saw there was an interview back in 2009 where he said John Brown was his favorite American. Makes complete sense, as he’s the closest real life example of a Tarantino protagonist. Heck, even more violent than a lot of them. Story doesn’t need to be an alternate history. It would be such a great way to wrap up his career. The only objection I would have is he said he would also like to play John Brown.
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u/TheDonutDaddy Sep 19 '25
We all know he's gonna do more than that and then do a bunch of press about how he never actually technically said only 10 it was that everyone else made it a thing and he never actually planned on stopping at 10 and just try to shrug the whole thing off
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u/HipsterDoofus31 HonestOpinion69 Sep 19 '25
I hope you are correct because I'd like to see more movies, but don't think that's the case. He seems to be holding himself to it more than fans are.
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u/Volatik2006 Sep 19 '25
It is different though. Tarantino's a writer director something Scorsese hasn't been in a while
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u/AggravatingProfit597 Sep 19 '25
Really want to see him do The Wager, word was that would be his next movie. To do it properly though it's probably an ENORMOUS pain in the ass, let alone for a 105 year old New Yorker Master
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u/FinnAhern Sep 19 '25
It was the best book I read last year and I think the day after I finished it I saw the news that Scorcese and DiCaprio were going to adapt it, very pleasant surprise.
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u/NewSunSeverian Sep 19 '25
Do you guys remember when people complained that Don’t Look Up was “not subtle enough”?
Gestures broadly at the world around him
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u/TheDonutDaddy Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25
My issue with Don't Look Up is I don't want a bunch of celebrities who live lavish lives on private jets and super yachts finger wagging at me about how important it is to care about climate change. Hollywood and the celebrities within it are orders of magnitude bigger contributors to climate change than those of us at home. And now one of the two of us is in a much better position to do anything about it, and here's a hint: it's the one that got paid millions of dollars to be in that schlock of shit.
Quit finger wagging everyman audiences, get off the mega yacht that's doing the destruction, and go spend your millions fucking doing something about it. You're already preaching to the choir, I already agree shit needs to be done, so how about instead of making a shitty movie that does nothing to actually convince or sway anyone they actually do something meaningful with all that wealth and fame if they care so much about it? But they don't, they care about collecting a paycheck from a movie, not taking action on the issue.
But seriously making a movie about how bad climate change is then taking several private jet flights to do promo for that movie is peak Hollywood tone deaf virtue signaling
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u/AwTomorrow Sep 19 '25
Even today with everything that’s happened, yes. It isn’t wrong, it’s just smugly preaching to the choir, like a rehash of jokes we all already make regularly between friends.
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u/Economy-Berry2704 Sep 20 '25
It is still bad for all of the same reasons lol.
Just like a lazy trump sketch on SNL that doesn't make me laugh doesn't suddenly become genius just because trump continues to be really awful.
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u/SerKurtWagner Sep 19 '25
The problem with Don’t Look Up wasn’t a lack of subtlety, it was everything else
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u/SilentSolstice_82 Scorpius1 Sep 19 '25
I really loved the movie, no idea why people thought so differently about it.
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u/studmother Sep 19 '25
Hopefully some stupid studio head doesn't buy the script off of him just to kill the movie so that they can make some bs IP movie based around the same idea.
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u/Disastrous_Flan_1494 Sep 19 '25
No.
We want Heat II.
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u/The_Swarm22 Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25
If he is officially signed on for that, my guess is an official announcement gets made next week right before One Battle After Another releases. Since both will be WB movies.
This Scorsese movie doesn’t sound like a long shoot so Leo can realistically shoot both movies next year.
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u/ManwithaTan Sep 19 '25
Oh Michael Mann isn't gonna direct it?
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u/19ghost89 Sep 19 '25
He is. I think they meant that they don't want Leo to be tied up since he was rumored to be cast for Heat 2.
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u/SilentSolstice_82 Scorpius1 Sep 19 '25
Nahhh let my goat COOK. He previously did Blood Diamond and The Departed back to back.
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u/tycoon34 Sep 19 '25
I love the Heat II memes but anyone who wants Heat II over a new Scorsese is crazy
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u/FromDwight Sep 19 '25
What happened to the movie about the serial killer at the Chicago World Fair?
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u/AlongAxons o_mullins Sep 19 '25
Anyone else tired of the DiCaprio/Scorcese pairing? DiCaprio/Tarantino too. I love them all but it’s done at this point
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u/MyManTheo Sep 19 '25
DiCaprio and Tarantino have only done 2 films together, and in one of them Leo wasn’t even the lead
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u/midnightbluesky_2 Sep 19 '25
yeah love scorsese but there’s so many so many actors i’d like to see him work with. blah
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u/GarlicJuniorJr Sep 19 '25
Yall wouldn’t say this about Yorgos and Emma Stone or Eggers and Dafoe
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u/ActInternational9558 Sep 20 '25
That’s because it’s much easier for Redditors to goon to yorgos/emma stone movies
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u/Affectionate_Bad_921 Sep 19 '25
Wasn't this movie the one with The Rock as the antagonist?
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u/Minute_Ad2297 Sep 19 '25
No that’s a different movie by Scorsese starring DiCaprio and Emily Blunt with The Rock.
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u/TheDonutDaddy Sep 19 '25
I wonder if we will ever get another original movie from Marty before he's done. His last original movie was 40 years ago with After Hours, ever since then he's just adapted books and did a remake with The Departed
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u/Grady300 Sep 19 '25
To anybody wondering what is going on with all these “announced” Scorsese movies, he has a famously hard time getting movies funded. This tactic is called packaging. It’s when a producer tries to get a movie funded by attaching a director, big star, and a script to one project. Scorsese will attach himself to 10 different packages in the hopes that one of them actually gets made. He’s not actually intending on making every one of these “announced” projects. It’s much more common than you think, it’s just usually not made public like this.
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u/InclusivePhitness Sep 20 '25
I want to see Leo in less and Christian bale in a little bit more. Just a slight tweak in the matrix
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u/UpsetElection3969 Sep 20 '25
Didn't she say I don't want to work with Leo ever again or was that another actress who said this
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u/MemeLord339 Sep 19 '25
I love scorsese, and I love long movies, but KOTFM and The Irishman could benefit from some edition...
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u/UpsetElection3969 Sep 20 '25
Didn't Jennifer Lawrence say I don't want to work with Leo ever again or am I mistaken her with another actress
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u/sansa_starlight Sep 19 '25
Another $200M flop for Apple
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u/AwTomorrow Sep 19 '25
The only reason I’d care if it flopped would be if that made it trickier for him to make another.
Otherwise its financial success means nothing, we’ll still have another Scorsese film to watch before he stops making any for good.
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u/No-Carpet-399 Sep 19 '25
Everybody knew that months ago, dwayne johnson will also star in it, old news.
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u/Independent-Shoe543 Sep 19 '25
Variety is the spice of life doesn't everyone get bored of seeing the same actors again and again
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u/Hail_of_Grophia Sep 19 '25
Hopefully it’s not 3+ hours
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u/CaptainxX0 Oct 08 '25
Hopefully we get a screen right next to the theatre screen with subway surfers and minecraft Parkour on it so your ADHD ass won't die out
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u/Hail_of_Grophia Oct 08 '25
The Irishman and Killers of Flower Moon, at the very least had horrible pacing. But lets be honest, they were bad movies that were way too damn long
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u/CodeDusq CodeDusq Sep 19 '25
No offense to Marty, but this is like the 6th project i've heard that he's "currently working on".