Scorsese and DeNiro to remake “Taxi Driver”?!?!?
February 15th, 2010 by Scott Marks
All the Danish animals come out at night. While he’s no Bertrand Russell, Lars Von Trier has got some bad ideas.
No sooner does word arrive that there is talk of Scorsese and DeNiro reuniting on a new gangster film, than this bit of violent insanity crosses my desk.
Danish director Lars Von Trier has challenged Marty and Bob to do a remake of “Taxi Driver” with DeNiro once again starring as Travis Bickle. Where do you get your balls big enough to challenge Marty to one of your pissing contests? If Von Trier has his way Bjork will play Iris.
Sick. Venal.
After spending far too much time researching this story, Earth Times reports that the news first broke in the Copenhagen film magazine Ekko. It’s hard to take a site seriously when they misspell His name, but I won’t kill the messenger. It’s Von Trier’s motives that I question.
Von Tirer is no stranger to this form of cinematic masturbation. According to Variety, “The idea behind the project is similar to the film ‘The Five Obstructions’ that von Trier and Danish helmer Jorgen Leth made in 2003. In that film, von Trier challenged his colleague Leth to do a remake of his own 1967 film ‘The Perfect Human.’ Von Trier gave Leth the task of remaking five times, each time with a different obstacle, such as making the film animated, given by von Trier.”
Hey, Lars, suck on this: While I was able to get some shits and giggles out of “Antichrist,” you haven’t made a good film since “Breaking the Waves.” And whatever happened your Dogme 95 manifesto in which the director is not to take credit? Going before the press at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival to proclaim himself the “greatest director in the world” is more pretentious than anything on display in your last four films. You’re a greedy, exploitative whore like the rest of them. Can’t wait for “Eden,” the upcoming video game based on “Antichrist.”
Stay away from him, Marty. He’s the type of man who would do violence in his grandmother’s neighborhood.
As John Schultz pointed out, this is the only officially sanctioned remake of “Taxi Driver”:
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A Valentine from Martin Scorsese?
February 14th, 2010 by Scott Marks
‘Shutter Island’ Photocall, Rome/Italy, 02/08/2010
Who needs a dozen roses and a Whitman’s Sampler? Nothing says love on Valentine’s Day quite like the promise of a new collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro.
It’s been fifteen f@*king years since the boys last teamed together for “Casino.” With the exception of “Kundun,” Marty’s subsequent offerings have been a bit of a letdown. While the advance word on “Shutter Island” is nish-nish, this gives renewed hope of eventual redemption. As for DeNiro’s output over the last fifteen years, fugetaboutit!
Speaking after the Berlin Film Festival screening of “Shutter,” “where the audience reaction was decidedly muted,” Marty told ABC News that he’s eager to team up with DeNiro for another mob movie.
“There’s no doubt about that. We’re working on something like that, but it’s from the vantage point of older men looking back, none of this running around stuff.”
YeahbuthowlongIgottawait?
“To the successful eBay bidder…”
Before getting our hopes up, remember what Variety reported in 2008:
“His long collaboration with Martin Scorsese — which he ascribed to the fact it’s always been ‘a lot of fun to work’ together — should produce at least two more films, De Niro said.
His next project with Scorsese, which he declined to detail, is one on which he’s already working and should be ready by 2009, he said.
Earlier in an interview with the festival daily newspaper, De Niro had said he was ’superstitious about talking about it.’”
On the set of “Shutter Island”
I’ll see “Shutter Island” this Tuesday and report back. Keep everything crossed. Variety is likening it to “Cape Fear” and “The Departed.”
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