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Martin Scorsese to go fantasy/sci-fi with THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET?

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Now, Martin Scorsese has a ton on his plate, so there's no saying which of the half-dozen projects he might go with next... these projects include a sequel to THE DEPARTED, LAST DUEL: A TRUE STORY OF CRIME, SCANDAL AND TRIAL BY COMBAT IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE and SILENCE.

Warner Bros nabbed up the rights to a Scholastic book called THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET, which John Logan is adapting and Scorsese is potentially directing.



It sounds a little like the story is a period fantasy. Not too out there, but one of those "magic of a child's imagination" type stories, but with an automaton... I don't know, something you'd imagine hearing Alfonso Cuaron or Jean Pierre Jeunet attacking. says it's about a 12 year old orphan who lives in the walls of a Paris train station in the 1930s. There's a mystery involving this boy's father and a robot. Will he pick this film? Who knows, but the involvement of AVIATOR collaborator John Logan puts it in a likely position. I'd love to see Scorsese tackle something so radically different. What about you?


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interesting - don't know anything about the book
by just pillow talk
Feb 22nd, 2007
09:42:15 AM
do what?
by liljuniorbrown
Feb 22nd, 2007
09:43:23 AM
Scrosese + Sci-Fi + (plus Leo of couse) I don't know
by Proman1984
Feb 22nd, 2007
09:47:18 AM
Scorsese*
by Proman1984
Feb 22nd, 2007
09:49:06 AM
what happened to the Young Teddy Roosevelt film?
by triplefive
Feb 22nd, 2007
10:10:55 AM
I thought he was going to do Hyperion.......
by Jimmy Jazz
Feb 22nd, 2007
10:26:40 AM
Logan wrote the hideous Time Machine remake...
by blackmantis
Feb 22nd, 2007
10:39:43 AM
The Departed Sequel
by Sly Fox
Feb 22nd, 2007
10:49:11 AM
Ah, Sorry....
by Sly Fox
Feb 22nd, 2007
10:54:04 AM
MARTY'S GOTTA EAT !!!
by Se7en
Feb 22nd, 2007
11:12:21 AM
Y
by arghhhhhhhh
Feb 22nd, 2007
11:26:49 AM
Okay But
by CaptDanielRoe
Feb 22nd, 2007
11:40:25 AM
TO YACK_BACKER
by K_Darklighter
Feb 22nd, 2007
12:49:18 PM
How to type a Boston accent...
by jimmy rabbitte
Feb 22nd, 2007
12:57:10 PM
If he can better Lucas and spielberg
by emeraldboy
Feb 22nd, 2007
01:03:39 PM
check out the Last Samurai Yack
by just pillow talk
Feb 22nd, 2007
01:25:29 PM
I just flipped through this book the other day...
by illyGraham
Feb 22nd, 2007
02:08:35 PM
why does everyone insist on pigeonholing marty?
by JacksonsPole
Feb 22nd, 2007
02:38:52 PM
Damn you Michael Bay
by MCMLXXVI
Feb 22nd, 2007
02:39:38 PM
The Conabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnage
by No Respectable Gentleman
Feb 22nd, 2007
02:51:24 PM
Let Marty make whatever he damn well pleases
by skimn
Feb 22nd, 2007
03:15:55 PM
really good book
by amalthea00
Feb 22nd, 2007
04:41:35 PM
Sure, I'd love to see it!
by alienindisguise
Feb 22nd, 2007
06:43:56 PM
After Hours and King of Comedy...
by DanielKurland
Feb 22nd, 2007
07:03:45 PM
MARTY'S A SAILOR PEG !!!!!! AND HE'S LOST HIS LEEG!!!!
by Chief Redcock
Feb 22nd, 2007
07:05:07 PM
The Change alone
by Black Satin 2
Feb 22nd, 2007
07:05:58 PM
"Scrosese"
by The Atomic Worm
Feb 22nd, 2007
07:07:18 PM
One reason I want a Departed sequel:
by Barry Egan
Feb 22nd, 2007
07:09:44 PM
Marty and Oscar
by Barry Egan
Feb 22nd, 2007
07:12:42 PM
period fantasy sucks
by Power_Girl
Feb 22nd, 2007
09:32:44 PM
period fantasy sucks
by Power_Girl
Feb 22nd, 2007
09:32:52 PM
Weren't there rumours at one time...
by 'Cholera's Ghost
Feb 22nd, 2007
09:46:34 PM
Knew they'd grab this book eventually
by Gorrister
Feb 22nd, 2007
11:11:22 PM
scorsese and a kid's book...
by occula
Feb 22nd, 2007
11:49:17 PM
Troy Mclure to star in
by bender7
Feb 23rd, 2007
12:15:42 AM
Will (almost) everyone get shot in the head?
by thebearovingian
Feb 23rd, 2007
12:24:20 AM

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