Martin Scorsese attends a screening of “Personality Crisis: One Night Only” during the 60th New York Film Festival at The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall on October 13, 2022 in New York City.Photo:Arturo Holmes/Getty
Arturo Holmes/Getty
Martin Scorsesehad a difficult time completing two his most revered movies.
“I realized that I couldn’t work if I had to make films that way ever again,” Scorsese told the outlet. The director recalled how Weinstein, 71, tried to exert more control over the movie’s budget and runtime than Scorsese felt comfortable with.
“If that was the only way that I was able to be allowed to make films, then I’d have to stop," he said. “Because the results weren’t satisfying. It was at times extremely difficult, and I wouldn’t survive it. I’d be dead. And so I decided it was over, really.”
Scorsese also said his next movie, 2004’sThe Aviator, faced the same issues because Weinstein’s Miramax co-distributed the film alongside Warner Bros. Pictures.
“And I was against that; there was a meeting, and I was forced into that position,” Scorsese recalled of having to work with Weinstein again. “I’d already been, uh, made pregnant, as they said. And there’s no way you’re getting out of it.”
“But the shoot went well, the editing went well until the last couple of weeks of editing. And they came in and did some things that I felt were extremely mean,” he added. According toGQ, both Miramax and Warner Bros. stopped funding the movie toward the end of its production, leading Scorsese to use $500,000 of his own money to finish the film.
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Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Gangs of New York’.Mario Tursi/Miramax/Dimension/Kobal/Shutterstock
Mario Tursi/Miramax/Dimension/Kobal/Shutterstock
InKillers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese reunites with DiCaprio for their sixth project together and marks his 11th film with DiCaprio’s costar,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) amid a series of murders against the area’s indigenous population.
The film is based on David Grann’s 2017 bestsellerKillers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
source: people.com
