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

Suck it.

this actually is cool news

Make this film soon, Marty!

Scorsese doesn't go all CG for this one. I've got a feeling he's itching to give digital a try. Stick to your roots, Martin. Stay practical as much as possible. Just tell the story.

hes never exactly done a film thats had my nerd sense tingling, until now of course. Needless to say I forsee this being very successful. Lets see which douchebags out there can possibly find something about this article to take a steaming pile on...

pure magic.

I kid I kid.

Seriously sounds fantastic. I'll watch anything Marty does. Not everything he does is brilliant, but sometimes it is, and THAT AIN'T BAD.

Im all for it.

..thanks but no thanks Harry.

Do they come out at the same time?

What's brain meltingly cool about a french kid making a robot at a Parisian train station? ... in memory of his dead father who did finish the job? Seriously? Give me Goodfellas 2 instead please

WOW, this looks like it could be really amazing. I can't wait.

Damn You Michael Bay

Calm down.

with a kid fixing a robot at a 1930's at Parisian train station. Give the guy a fucking oscar already! I'm more excited for Predators and Deadpool.

Trading Robbie for Leonardo was an irrevocable step aft-ward. He no longer elicits an ounce of excitement in me. If I want to see one of his techniques properly exhibited, I'd rather go to the source material. Hope your excitement pays off Harry. But Me have little faith.

dang. well... it might still be good.

Watch Doctor Who Christmas Special from 2008 for a giant steampunk robot.

Because we all know how well that worked in Howl's Moving Castle and The City of Lost Children

For some reason, I kinda like that in a filmmaker...

you better not be implying that The City of Lost Children is anything other than an awesome movie

Silence sounded really, really good too

I don't care who you are back in the world, you claim City of Lost Children sucks and I'll bleed ya, real quiet. Leave ya here. Got that?

are always considered his next. I'm really looking forward to Wolf of Wall Street and Sinatra, but at his pace...I'm sure we won't see those until the end of the decade. How many films does he have left in him?

stinky cheese, snails, french broad armpit hair and white flags?

I was actually looking at this book on my shelf today and thinking it'd make a nice little movie. Selznick, the author/illustrator, does great stuff.

It's all kinds of awesome in a puzzle box.

It should look like a pile of junk- scrap metal, light bulbs, crisscrossing wires, etc- that has had the breath of life breathed into it by a magic fairy. Screw DiCaprio as a robot; that just wouldn't be right. NO PEACE.

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Is he a character in the story? Or is the story just influenced by his work? That's a pedigree that elevates this film already.

Awesome. Good link palimpsest.

Now I want the book.

For being such a film geek and for not mentioning at ALL in your story that George Melies plays a part in this tale. That's just lazy. Mentioning it would have made this story even more interesting to the rest of the film geeks here.

did Soderbergh and Malick die in a plane crash? fuck!

we might not need it translated, but transposed is nice. considering I don't go to like 30 different fucking movie and entertainment sites every day, I'm happy that AICN posts stuff that might be found elsewhere on sites that bore me to tear normally (Variety) or look like their code was written by a coked-up 12 year old (chud).

if it's important to me, as a film geek, it'll end up on AICN soon enough.

the only trouble is whiners in the talkbacks.

really?

if you don't call Scorsese "our most brilliant living director," I won't be forced to call him a one-eyed hack. he's neither, so let's just be reasonable FOR ONCE (and for Christ's sake). I also don't understand why all of Hollywood suddenly has this collective hard-on for Scorsese, now that he makes shitty films instead of good ones, after ignoring his brilliant films for so many years. if scorsese had made taxi driver, raging bull, mean streets and goodfellas all within the last 2 years, i would be calling him, as you did, our most brilliant living director. but those films were made years and years ago, and in the meantime, scorsese has craved mainstream Hollywood validation so tangibly he has sold his soul to make Rolling Stones concert films and remakes of Hong Kong cinema. I pity the man. Truly.

The City of Lost Children is one of the coolest looking movies I've ever seen, it just drips atmosphere

but alas...

i'm interested in who you think is better.

...in the best possible way.

The people that do steampunk crap think that the very existence of these clockwork men and dirigibles and shit are supposed to immediately illicit feelings of whimsy and wonder for the viewer, when in fact they are almost always unimaginative and derivative. It's so overused and precious.

You think THE DEPARTED is "shitty"?

Now THAT'S something worthy of pity...

You bitches should be breaking news like this. Step up your game!

If it wasn't Scorsese would you all still be creaming yourselves?

motherfucker, does this mean no "Silence"?

It"s a nice little book.

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you may in fact have brain damage if you think this is a good Scorsese picture.

But the change should be a challenge for him.

j/k

interesting, and it almost does. It would help of course, if the story had any information about the project, except that some child is finishing his father's mechanical project in a European capital. How about doing some research, and bring us an actual story? Or is that to much to ask from you fine people? Perhaps the idea is that we do it ourselves...but if that was the case, then this site would make itself superfluous wouldn't it? Seems counterproductive in a way. I like this site, and have read it daily for quite some time. I would just like to see higher quality on some of the content.

Just an idea. This information isn't secret. Or scroll up and see what other people have said. Maybe try an internet search.

Maybe, failing that, an Amazon page or similar. Perhaps the author has a page or two. Be independent - think a little.

Scorsese could be making a movie about Gene Simmons building a woman robot in his gold plated basement and I would watch it!....wait, who the hell wouldn't wanna watch that MOVIE?

But I have to maintain that my argument stands. The TBs are perhaps the most interesting aspect of this site, but readers of AICN shouldn't HAVE TO depend on them in order for the news reports to be informative. And when it comes to reading the book, that sounds like a good idea. However, I would argue that a researched report on the matter should contain enough information, so it wouldn't be absolutely necessary to do so. I mean, I shouldn't have to read the book in order to learn the basic outline of the story, should i? For the record, I consider AICN a very important source of info, and a very amusing at that. I prefer it to most, if not all movie sites.The point is, when an piece of news is posted, it should actually carry something substantial, shouldn't it? I mean, in most other articles, that usually is the case. Not so much in this one though..

I can picture it..

I just fanned a page on Facebook called "Sarcasm doesn't translate well into text". I love both of those movies and Steampunk girls are fucking hot.

is it any fun?

I read somewhere that a symbol might be introduced to indicate sarcasm in text. It looked like a spiral with a dot in it. Probably wont work out..

I wanted to love it but it left me incredibly cold.

That project is a waste of time for a talent like Scorsese. Although to be fair, biopics to me are DULL DULL DULL as a rule 90% percent of the time. "The Aviator" is one of the only movies MS directed that I couldn't sit through.

Marty is pushing his limits, trying new genres and succeeding. While never compromising his edge or his tude. Marty's getting more daring as he gets older. While his peers are just trudgin along, getting by on their name only. Spielberg, take whatever ED drug Marty is taking and learn something.

The author is amazing. He's got another book called "Boy of a Thousand Faces" A picture book about a kid obsessed with Lon Chaney, and old movie monsters

i named my car MIETE (it was compact). and that's MR. SCORSESE, you low-lifes

yeah I'll say sarcasm doesn't translate well into text, I thought you were serious lol, well at least I had an excuse to use that Predator quote

I also have 'Boy of a Thousand Faces'. Love it. It was actually the first Selznick I read - used it for a school assignment - then found out about Hugo Cabret.

That's also good Selznick.

clamoring for easier times in lollipop land? Screw these children movies.

tell me, how is Gangs or The Departed ballsier than Taxi Driver or the King of Comedy? They're both Hollywood versions of what he USED to do well... and I wouldn't even say that about Aviator, which, oddly, I seem to enjoy more than anyone else. I thought it was better than Gangs and The Departed, but still not up to him at his height... but I still think his work is ALWAYS interesting. But I agree with the person who said he craves mainstream acceptance... the reason DiCaprio is in everything he does is that he can then get basically ANYTHING greenlit on Leo's back... plus guarantee a cadre of stars willing to negotiate a lower rate. But I don't see him telling any of these actors to ask each other, "Did you fuck my wife?" They usually get to play it relatively safe in the Scorsese universe... at least Sharon Stone went fucking all out in Casino, as did Cage in Bringing Out the Dead, one of his most underrated films. On the other hand, I think Spielberg was stretching himself with Catch Me If You Can (I think it's HIS most underrated film), Munich, and parts of War of the Worlds did that terrifying world-ending shit better than anyone else has ever done it. Sadly, I think Spielberg has kind of lost his way the past two or three years and isn't even sure what he wants to do anymore as projects fall apart left and right.

Also, don't know if anyone else caught this, but Cameron came over to DiCaprio's table at the Globes and Leo looked a little annoyed, but then introduced him to Scorsese. I could have sworn he mouthed the words, 'Nice to meet you.' Cameron seriously lives in his own fucking world. Also, I could be wrong, but did everyone seem kind of annoyed with Avatar winning and his speeches? I also read a Newsweek article where it was Peter Jackson and James Cameron talking about the future of cinema and Jackson seemed to be taking back-handed shots at Avatar while Cameron would then take the bait and talk up Avatar as the best thing since sliced bread. It was a weird fucking article that I got a strange vibe from... for his part, JC was very complimentary of Jackson but the compliments didn't go the other way. I almost felt like Jackson had an air of superiority about him because he went and made Lovely Bones and is bored with FX. Whatever, think of it what you will, but that's what I got from it.

weird!?

Sounds like a bit of an agenda there - Gangs & Departed vs. Taxi Driver & King? C'mon dude, apples and oranges, Marty or not. Judging them on a violence or crazymeter (or "ball-meter"!;)) isn't really fair. Not everything he does needs to be an intimate, paranoid or violent warts-and-all account. The did you fuck my wife thing? What?! I agree with a bunch of the other stuff, but I do honestly believe that Scorsese thinks DiCaprio is the new Deniro, or at least as close as he can get to that sort of actor in this generation. Myself, I think Scorsese is the only one who gives DiCaprio some meat to chew on, acting-wise. Leo films usually just have him treading water. It's not his fault he's saddled with the Titanic stigma. He's never done chick flick roles intentionally. I love the Beard, but Catch me sure ran out of dramatic steam in the last act, and DiCaprio has to overact and frantically tapdance to keep that thing afloat to the end. IMO! Maybe the throngs of Leohaters will calm down in a few years when he finally looks like a man...

I may be arguing semantics, but Scorsese moving away from brilliant but very similarly themed/toned stuff like the early films to Romantic period pieces, more theatrical (ie: apparently "Hollywood"), music docos or even "kids films" IS ballsy. Moving away from what's safe for him and has been done plenty of times to playing with different forms (that he's made no secret of loving) and attempting himself is absolutely ballsy! Whether they're deemed brilliant or not.

But whatdoIknow? I was more emotionally affected by Where the Wild Things Are than Lovely Bones. I'm a Jackson fan, but that thing didn't make me feel anything, a cardinal sin for a subject like that... cheers SK.

And to whoever had the ridiculous idea that Scorsese's reason for this was that he wanted to do something with/get into effects, that really started with Gangs. Almost a decade ago! The guy honestly wanted to do Age of Innocence and New York New York too. So many cynics here who can't believe not everyone has some hidden agenda...

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I can't understand why Scorsese is in love with DiCaprio. There are lots of other actors out there that are simply better actors, more interesting to watch and do not have the face of a ten year old.