Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorcese will make a film based on the book by David Grann

The production inspired by “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder” is expected to be released in 2023 on Apple TV +

Leonardo DiCaprio will star in Martin Scorcese’s next film, based on the book The bet: a story of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder, by writer David Grann. According to information released by The Hollywood Reporter this Saturday, 30, the apple Original Films acquired the rights to the literary work and plans to release the film in April 2023 on its streaming service.

The story of the book takes place in 1740, when the British ship The Wager [“A Aposta”, em tradução livre], on a secret mission in search of a Spanish galleon full of treasures, he ends up sinking near an island in the Patagonian region, where his crew ends up fighting for survival. Amidst the difficulties, the 30 men manage to build a small patched boat so that, more than 100 days later, they manage to reach the coasts of Brazil, where they are welcomed as heroes in telling their story.

Six months later, another fragile ship lands on the coasts of Chile, on the other side of South America, with only three crew members, who tell a very different story from that told by the other sailors, who are not heroes, but the authors of a mutiny. . Revealing the past of anarchy, quarrels and even murder during the time they were on the island, a court was called to analyze who told the truth and the lie in the story, what it could mean who would survive and who would be sentenced to. death.

DiCaprio and Scorsese have worked together on several occasions, for example on New York bands (2002), the aviator (2004), You infiltrates (2006), Island of fear (2010), the wolf of Wall Street (2013), in addition to The killers of the flower moondue out in 2023, also based on the work of David Grann.

Grandma has already had other jobs adapted to the screens, including The lost city of Z (2016) and The old man and the gun (2018), in addition to the series The white darkness which is still in development for Apple + and will star Tom Hiddleston.

Source: Terra

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