Martin Scorsese and Dwayne Johnson Team Up on Hawaiian Mob Flick

You’ve heard of Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, but the mafia? It happened. And now Martin Scorsese is making a movie about it. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is reported to be starring in Scorsese’s new film about the Hawaiian mob, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt. According to Deadline, the film will focus on the 60’s and 70s, when multiple gangs sought to control the nascent state. The film will balance the violent war for power between gangs (boo) with the anticolonial work the mob did to dispel mainland American business interest from the islands (yay). The Idol’s Nick Bilton is set to write the script.

This is the first time Johnson and Scorsese are working together, but that’s not the case for Johnson, DiCaprio, and Hawaii. Both supported the Protect Mauna Kea movement in 2019, which sought to prevent the building of a telescope on the Big Island’s tallest mountain. And DiCaprio knows Scorsese from some stuff they did together a while back, too.

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