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Brain-meltingly Cool News: Scorsese to make 1930's Parisian Orphan Fixing A Robot in a Train Station movie!!!

Hey folks, Harry here... and sometimes I feel it is the very reason AICN exists to take a story that has been online via Variety and then translate it into frank film geek speak for the rest of us.

Martin Scorsese... possibly our most brilliant living director... Has chosen as his next project, a 533 page Children's Picture Book called THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET to make as his very next film, shooting this June.

Well, this book is about an orphan child,whose father was working to fix a Mechanical Man (ROBOT) when he died. The boy, HUGO, is hanging out in a 1930's Parisian train station where he is attempting to complete his father's work.

The other night on CONAN O'BRIEN's TONIGHT SHOW - I watch Scorsese talk about his daughter and there was something about the way he spoke, that made me actually wonder if we were going to see the maestro turn his craft to a children's tale.

With this project, I expect that we will receive our very first live action equivalent to a Miyazaki animated film. I am so excited for this movie. How thrilling. This will be magic.

Watch this Video to truly begin to fall in love with this project: Over at the Old Gray Lady

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First.
by Kid Idioteque
Jan 22nd, 2010
12:34:12 AM
second
by Deviant Apex
Jan 22nd, 2010
12:47:44 AM
So Excited for this
by fassbinder79
Jan 22nd, 2010
12:49:19 AM
I just hope
by Darryll
Jan 22nd, 2010
12:53:54 AM
Scorsese is an great director but...
by Deviant Apex
Jan 22nd, 2010
12:56:31 AM
The book is magic
by Larry of Arabia
Jan 22nd, 2010
12:58:29 AM
I meant "a great director but"
by Deviant Apex
Jan 22nd, 2010
12:58:34 AM
Leo as the robot? Finally a suitable role!!
by JediRob
Jan 22nd, 2010
01:06:48 AM
Scorsese doing achildren story
by grendel69
Jan 22nd, 2010
01:28:49 AM
No we dont need news from elswhere translated...
by quantize
Jan 22nd, 2010
01:37:03 AM
What about Hugh Jackman's Robot Boxer Movie?
by Adelai Niska
Jan 22nd, 2010
01:37:11 AM
: The Rise of Heartbeeps 2
by Dingbatty
Jan 22nd, 2010
02:03:41 AM
Sounds boring
by Golden_Ux
Jan 22nd, 2010
02:26:59 AM
I smell a best picture Oscar.
by junierizzle
Jan 22nd, 2010
02:40:08 AM
Damn You Michael Bay
by MCMLXXVI
Jan 22nd, 2010
02:45:04 AM
Junierizzle
by Golden_Ux
Jan 22nd, 2010
02:46:28 AM
Scorsese is gonna fuck your eyeballs
by Golden_Ux
Jan 22nd, 2010
02:48:00 AM
Martin Lost met at Dicaprio...
by Keblar
Jan 22nd, 2010
02:59:42 AM
Awww... no giant steampunk robot?
by CENOBITE
Jan 22nd, 2010
03:00:32 AM
steampunk robot.
by jacksparness
Jan 22nd, 2010
04:37:36 AM
FUCKING STEAMPUNK!
by DOGSOUP
Jan 22nd, 2010
04:59:13 AM
Yeah, but unlike Miyazaki, Scorcese films actually make sense...
by BurnHollywood
Jan 22nd, 2010
05:28:52 AM
DOGSOUP
by The_Crimson_King
Jan 22nd, 2010
06:11:12 AM
anyway this sounds great, but what happened to Silence?
by The_Crimson_King
Jan 22nd, 2010
06:11:39 AM
because DOGSOUP
by The_Crimson_King
Jan 22nd, 2010
06:13:52 AM
So many projects....
by alxorange
Jan 22nd, 2010
07:21:34 AM
So the robot is made of...
by NippleEffect
Jan 22nd, 2010
07:25:11 AM
Wow...
by Mr_Sinister
Jan 22nd, 2010
07:30:27 AM
Now THIS sounds cool
by kwisatzhaderach
Jan 22nd, 2010
07:36:40 AM
"City of Lost Children" is a 90's meta-text on fantasy—
by blakindigo
Jan 22nd, 2010
08:07:33 AM
"Howl's Moving Castle" is beautiful.
by blakindigo
Jan 22nd, 2010
08:08:28 AM
The_Crimson_King, bless you…bless you…
by blakindigo
Jan 22nd, 2010
08:09:28 AM
The robot should not look human
by D.Vader
Jan 22nd, 2010
08:38:10 AM
If you don't know HUGO CABRET, check this out:
by palimpsest
Jan 22nd, 2010
08:48:35 AM
Wait, what does Melies have to do with this book?
by D.Vader
Jan 22nd, 2010
09:05:28 AM
And I just discovered its a little bit of both
by D.Vader
Jan 22nd, 2010
09:09:05 AM
NippleEffect, you make me laugh.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
Jan 22nd, 2010
09:09:23 AM
This Robot better kill Hitler in a movie theater.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
Jan 22nd, 2010
09:11:04 AM
Thanks palimpsest
by blackwood
Jan 22nd, 2010
09:15:48 AM
Harry, I'm very, very disappointed in you
by D.Vader
Jan 22nd, 2010
09:17:53 AM
"possibly our most brilliant living director"
by BadMrWonka
Jan 22nd, 2010
10:19:49 AM
quantize
by BadMrWonka
Jan 22nd, 2010
10:21:59 AM
steven soderbergh is better than scorsese, wonka?
by RedHorseVector
Jan 22nd, 2010
10:30:09 AM
don't let's get carried away...
by j_difool
Jan 22nd, 2010
10:30:51 AM
yo blakindigo, glad to see I'm not the only fan here
by The_Crimson_King
Jan 22nd, 2010
10:34:55 AM
in a perfect world it would be on blu ray...
by The_Crimson_King
Jan 22nd, 2010
10:35:58 AM
who is the most brilliant living director, j_difool?
by RedHorseVector
Jan 22nd, 2010
10:36:15 AM
I still say he should do Bioshock
by Pitofbenders
Jan 22nd, 2010
10:53:22 AM
Both my brain and my heart just exploded...
by robogeek.com
Jan 22nd, 2010
11:14:01 AM
God I hate steampunk
by jimmy_009
Jan 22nd, 2010
11:22:44 AM
j_difool
by BurnHollywood
Jan 22nd, 2010
11:40:14 AM
Nice excuse for cribbing from Variety
by Thunderbolt Ross
Jan 22nd, 2010
12:11:08 PM
Sounds like the worst story ever
by VenomPD
Jan 22nd, 2010
01:07:48 PM
Silence?
by Deep Roots
Jan 22nd, 2010
01:14:40 PM
well
by Dollar Bird
Jan 22nd, 2010
01:18:57 PM
Burnhollywood is too fucking stupid to understand miazaki
by UltraTron
Jan 22nd, 2010
01:23:42 PM
i hate
by Gh0ulardi
Jan 22nd, 2010
01:34:44 PM
Really check your enthusiasm for this
by Anything But Tangerines
Jan 22nd, 2010
01:49:15 PM
Quite an unexpected turn from Mr. Scorcese
by Teddy Artery
Jan 22nd, 2010
02:16:58 PM
But could it ever be better than Millenium Man?
by SithMenace
Jan 22nd, 2010
02:20:14 PM
I guess this story is supposed to sound
by Madcapper
Jan 22nd, 2010
03:28:40 PM
Read the book, madcapper
by palimpsest
Jan 22nd, 2010
03:46:47 PM
Or see if there's a website about it
by palimpsest
Jan 22nd, 2010
03:52:13 PM
hmmmm
by macheesmo3
Jan 22nd, 2010
03:54:11 PM
Perhaps a valid point palimpsest
by Madcapper
Jan 22nd, 2010
04:12:07 PM
I'm sorry for my language slips
by Madcapper
Jan 22nd, 2010
04:17:02 PM
Macheesmo3
by Madcapper
Jan 22nd, 2010
04:19:05 PM
The_Crimson_King
by DOGSOUP
Jan 22nd, 2010
04:20:53 PM
Facbook
by Madcapper
Jan 22nd, 2010
04:46:06 PM
Facebook
by Madcapper
Jan 22nd, 2010
04:54:59 PM
I just hope it's better than the book
by DKT
Jan 22nd, 2010
05:36:52 PM
At least it isn't SINATRA
by CarmillaVonDoom
Jan 22nd, 2010
06:09:28 PM
Scorsese is like a reverse Spielberg, he's getting ballsier
by Onin Solstice
Jan 22nd, 2010
06:47:19 PM
Brian Selznick
by yobrockoli
Jan 22nd, 2010
07:33:56 PM
CITY OF LOST CHILDREN
by frank cotton
Jan 22nd, 2010
09:26:52 PM
oh wow DOGSOUP, jokes on me eh?
by The_Crimson_King
Jan 22nd, 2010
10:56:35 PM
yobrockoli
by Mr_Sinister
Jan 23rd, 2010
02:41:24 AM
The Houdini Box
by yobrockoli
Jan 23rd, 2010
07:45:42 PM
will i also become a sad sentimental sap?
by tradeskilz
Jan 23rd, 2010
09:38:13 PM
I don't think Socrsese is getting ballsier...
by SK229
Jan 24th, 2010
09:30:33 PM
pinochiobot
by FILMFUNK
Jan 25th, 2010
04:17:40 AM
Whoa SK!
by white_vader
Jan 25th, 2010
08:32:24 AM
LKaOdiPX
by TmvEqK
Feb 11th, 2010
08:19:20 PM
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by TmvEqK
Feb 11th, 2010
08:19:58 PM
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by TmvEqK
Feb 15th, 2010
02:24:31 AM
nSRDpfr
by TmvEqK
Feb 15th, 2010
02:25:11 AM
Scorsese's love affair with DiCaprio
by Bucker
Feb 17th, 2010
07:31:18 PM

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