Martin Scorsese struggled to complete two of his most revered films.
The 80-year-old legendary director said: GQ recently for a cover story ahead of the release of his latest epic. Killers of the Flower MoonThe filmmaker recalled feeling frustrated with the restrictions former producer Harvey Weinstein placed on him while making the 2002 film. Gangs of New York With Weinstein’s former company, Miramax.
“I realized that if I had to make movies this way again, I wouldn’t be able to work,” Scorsese told the outlet. The director recalled that Weinstein, 71, tried to exert more control over the film’s budget and duration than Scorsese felt comfortable with.
“If that was the only way I was allowed to make films, I would have to stop,” he said. “Because the results were not satisfactory. It was very difficult at times and I would not have survived it. I would have died. So I decided that it was really over.”
Scorsese also said that his next film will be in 2004. AviatorWeinstein’s Miramax agreed to release the film to Warner Bros. It ran into the same problems because it was co-distributed with Pictures.
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“I was against it too; Scorsese recalled having to work with Weinstein again. “As they said, I was already pregnant. And there’s no way out of that.”
“But the shooting went well and the editing went well until the last few weeks. Then they came in and did some things that I thought were extremely rude,” he added. According to this GQboth Miramax and Warner Bros. He stopped funding the film towards the end of production, which led to Scorsese using $500,000 of his own money to finish the film.
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Inside Killers of the Flower MoonScorsese is reuniting with DiCaprio in his sixth project and his 11th film with DiCaprio’s leading actor Robert De Niro. DiCaprio plays a man named Ernest Burkhart, who moves to Oklahoma in the 1920s and marries local Osage Nation woman Molly Kyle (Lily Gladstone) in the midst of a series of murders against the region’s indigenous people.
The film is based on the 2017 bestselling book by David Grann The Killers of Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Killers of the Flower Moon It will be released in theaters on October 20 and will later stream on Apple TV+.