Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese has made a career moving between features and documentaries, but is now set to become the subject of a five-part miniseries, “Mr. Scorsese,” coming from director Rebecca Miller and Apple TV+.
The tantalizing news hails from Deadline, who add that we won’t just explore Scorsese’s time making some of his biggest films, but will also take audiences on a journey that covers his student films while attending New York University.
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Potentially making “Mr. Scorsese” an intimate and in-depth examination of Scorsese’s life as a filmmaker, likely as we haven’t seen before.
Miller, the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and wife of Daniel Day-Lewis (longtime collaborator of Scorsese), who was previously behind features such as “She Came To Me” and “Maggie’s Plan,” is tackling the ambitious documentary.
“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,” Miller said in an official statement. “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.”
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Landing at Apple isn’t all that shocking as Scorsese’s “Killers of The Flower Moon” was made there with the streamer also bankrolling his upcoming project “Home,” and had recently appeared in Seth Rogen‘s satirical Hollywood series, “The Studio,” as being comically recruited to direct a faux “Kool-Aid” movie that would tackle the grim events of The Jonestown Massacre (funny enough, the subject of a developing series at HBO from Bill Hader).