Martin Scorsese is back with Killers of the Flower Moon, but do you remember his film with Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt?
There’s no doubt about that Martin Scorsese he wrote his name in the history of cinema with classics like Taxi driver, The good companions AND wild bull. The 80-year-old director is back Flower Moon Assassinsbut did you know that there is a film in which he is the protagonist Leonardo Dicaprio AND Brad Pitt?
To begin with, we are faced with a production that doesn’t even last 15 minutes and costs 70 million dollars, with the participation of Robert De Niroone of his favorite actors, so much so that he starred in several of the director’s films.
I’m talking about The auditionshort film written by Terenzio Winteralso responsible for the screenplay the Wolf of Wall Street (another Scorsese gem). This production premiered in 2015 and was actually a kind of advertisement to promote the opening of the Studio City hotel-casino resort, located in Macau.
The short film earned DiCaprio and De Niro around $13 million each. In the story of the production, the pair of actors meet with Martin Scorsese to audition for his latest film, competing against each other for the same role. In other words, they somehow used a bit of reality for this plot.
Despite the huge budget and the names involved in the project, The audition It was never released commercially…
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Source: Terra
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