Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:
Scorsese's killers. Sam Rockwell's wigs. A Wim Wender's tirade. And Celtic lore.
Let's go!
SCORSESE'S GOLDEN KEY
Scorsese’s masterwork Killers of the Flower Moon eclipses the quality of his most recent films.
NO SPOILERS follow:
He could have stopped after The Wolf of Wall Street. He could have stopped after The Irishman. But at age 80, he seems to have the same gusto for filmmaking as he did in his youth.
In fact, after co-writing the Flower Moon script with Eric Roth (Dune, A Star is Born, Munich) for two years, he decided the quality was not satisfactory and did a full rewrite.
In his own words, he’s persisted through:
“Good reviews. Bad reviews. Awards. No awards. Recognition. None. Box office really big. No box office.”
Marty is not phoning it in.
The genesis of his unwavering persistence began in 1967. He was fresh out of NYU film school with two shorts: The Big Shave, and It’s Not Just You, Murray!
In an attempt to get his first…