Leonardo DiCaprio (Facebook photo)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are like peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, gin and tonic – one of life’s best movie pairings.
Nearly two decades after first working together on the blockbuster Gangs of New York, DiCaprio and Scorsese are teaming up again for their sixth feature film, Killers of the Flower Moon, based on David Grann’s novel.
The film, which will be screened in May 2023 at the Cannes Film Festival, also marks the tenth collaboration between Scorsese and his longtime friend, Academy Award winner Robert De Niro.
And why stop at six? The Hollywood Reporter confirmed last week that DiCaprio and Scorsese will team up to adapt another Gran nonfiction book, The Bet: A Story of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, through Apple Original Films.
Since 2002, Scorsese and DiCaprio’s films have won multiple Academy Awards and dozens of nominations at every major ceremony, grossing more than $1.3 billion at the box office, with their last big film, The Wolf of Wall Street, grossing $392 million.
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It was De Niro who chose DiCaprio to work with in “This Boy’s Life” in ’93, and then told his director friend about Leo’s impressive work on set, which eventually led Scorsese to cast him in “Gangs of New York.”
De Niro and Scorsese are an easy addition to the list of best director-actor pairings, collaborating on major films spanning four decades, some of which are considered the greatest films of all time.
DiCaprio recalled running into the director at a bar in downtown New York after he finished filming What’s Eating Gilbert Grip, his second movie, when he was 18. He told THR he was “kind of paralyzed” when he saw Scorsese, and stood quietly until Marty said, “Hey , boy, I saw your movie. You did a great job. Keep it up.” Leo “exploded” from the meeting.
Scorsese responded, “I don’t remember that. I remember seeing the movie, of course, and Robert De Niro was the one who told me about Leo. He said, ‘I worked with this kid in this movie. You should really work with him sometime.’ And he usually doesn’t do that.”
Howard Breuer, CEO of Newsroom PR, told Fox News Digital that the road to film success for Scorsese and DiCaprio may not have been as smooth as it seems.
“Leonardo DiCaprio’s starring role in all these Scorsese films may have started with a casual comment from De Niro to Scorsese. But these types of partnerships don’t just happen, they involve significant buy-in from the studios and other collaborators of the filmmaker,” Breuer said.
DiCaprio, fresh off Romeo + Juliet and Titanic, was already a household name when Scorsese cast him in their first film together, Gangs of New York, a $100 million film that required a bankable star with a youth appeal “.
Gangs of New York, a 20-year passion project from Scorsese, was released in 2002 through Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax Films and also starred Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson, John C. Reilly and Osek.
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