SCORSESE CAN’T KEEP AWAY FROM THE GANGSTERS
Martin Scorsese simply knows what he does best. The gangster auteur secretly met with Winter Hill Gang hitman John Martorano while in town shooting Shutter Island, then had Departed producer Graham King acquire the hitman's life rights, according to the Boston Heral. The story includes Martorano killing 20 people before flipping for the Feds -- after learning other members of his gang were government informants, like James Bulger, who some say Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed was based on. Scorsese was supposedly working on a prequel to his Oscar-winning The Departed, but this may take precedence. I can see Scorsese favorites Leonardo DiCaprio playing Martorano, as a young man, and Robert DeNiro, as the elder hitman.
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