Martin Scorsese’s new film undergoes insane title change
January 25th, 2008 by Scott Marks
All that work on TCM’s Val Lewton documentary seems to have inspired Marty. Is this current title change a small tribute to Lewton, the legendary RKO producer of such low budget, exceedingly intelligent thrillers as Cat People, The Leopard Man and I Walked With a Zombie?
Marty’s new film is based on Dennis Lehan’s Shutter Island. Much of the action takes place in a 1950’s insane asylum named Ashecliffe, which is now the film’s new title. In a four-year period (1942-1946) Lewton produced nine highly personal horror noir including one called Bedlam that takes place in London’s legendary mental institution.
Ashecliffe, whichs stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a U.S. Marshall investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island, begins principal photography in Massachusetts this spring.
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