The latest rumors related to Apple TV, suggest that he is in talks with Martin Scorsese, in addition to Netflix, to carry out your next film project, as stated Wall Street Journal. The film is titled Killers of the Flower Moon and is based on the best seller of the same name.
This film, which is already in the production phase Paramount Pictures, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and has encountered a major budget issue. Apparently, the expected cost for this film is around $ 200 million, and Paramount is not willing to pay more than it originally planned.
Image taken from the ad starring Scorsese at the launch of the iPhone 4s
Faced with the refusal of Paramount Pictures, Scorsese is looking for chestnuts with other producers, such as Apple and Netflix. Scorsese's last movie, The Irish (available on Netflix) has had a history quite similar to this. Paramount Pictures She was in charge of producing the film, but the budget of 175 million dollars seemed excessive and decided to sell the rights to Netflix.
In that sense, Netflix should have more points to be able to get the rights to the next film by this director, since they worked on his last film, however, it is likely that he is not interested in making that important investment of money again without previously spending by the box office of the cinemas that allows you recover part of the cost of production.
In this sense, Apple seems to have the clearest ideas and is in favor of release the movies in which it previously participates in movie theaters and later in its Apple TV + streaming video service.
According to Wall Street Journal, if he is finally done with the rights, he will have to compensate Paramount Pictures due to the resources that the studio has already invested in the project, although it is also likely that they will j, temporarily joining their efforts, for Apple to put the money and Paramount Pictures handle distribution to movie theaters around the world.
