EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese has directed over a dozen documentaries from The Last Waltz to No Direction Home. But the filmmaker is now set to have the cameras turned on him in a new five-part series for Apple TV+.
Rebecca Miller, the filmmaker behind Personal Velocity: Three Portraits and She Came To Me, is to direct Mr. Scorsese for the streamer.
The project is a five-part film portrait of the legendary director behind Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, The Color of Money, Goodfellas, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon.
Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath, and wife of Scorsese collaborator Daniel Day-Lewis, has gained exclusive, unrestricted access to Scorsese’s private archives.
Mr. Scorsese is anchored by extensive conversations with the filmmaker himself and never-before-seen interviews with friends, family, and creative collaborators including Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Paul Shrader, Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett, Jay Cocks and Rodrigo Prieto, along with his children, wife Helen Morris and close childhood friends.
It will explore how his own colorful life experiences informed his artistic vision from student films at New York University such as The Big Shave, Who’s That Knocking At My Front Door – his first feature-length film, through to his classics starting with Mean Streets and his more recent work.
As Scorsese said recently, he has no intention of retiring, either.
Rebecca Miller and Martin Scorsese (Ronan Killeen)
Mr. Scorsese originated with Miller and Damon Cardasis at Round Films and Miller’s longtime creative collaborator Cindy Tolan. The trio exec produce alongside Rick Yorn, Christopher Donnelly and Julie Yorn. Ron Burkle produces. Robert Fernandez and Patrick Walmsley co-executive produce. The series is presented by Expanded Media and Round Films in association with LBI Entertainment and Moxie Pictures.
“I am so grateful to have been given the artistic freedom and access to create a cinematic portrait of one of our greatest living artists, Martin Scorsese,” said Miller. “His work and life are so vast and so compelling that the piece evolved from one to five parts over a five-year period; crafting this documentary alongside my longtime collaborators has been one of the defining experiences of my life as a filmmaker.”
Mr. Scorsese is Apple’s latest documentary about an iconic figure, having previously greenlit STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me and STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces as well as an upcoming documentary about Fleetwood Mac.
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