Surf’s up for 20th Century Studios.
The Disney division has picked up the Hawaii-set crime thriller package that has Leonard DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, and Emily Blunt attached to star, and Martin Scorsese attached to direct.
Lei-ed with a script by journalist and author Nick Bilton, the fact-based untitled movie is said to be in the mold of Scorsese’s Goodfellas and The Departed and center on a mob boss vying for control of the Hawaiian islands in the 1960s and 1970s.
All the players will also be producers on the project: Scorsese is producing via his Sikelia Productions banner, Johnson via Seven Bucks Productions, DiCaprio via his Appian Way Productions, and Blunt through her Ledbury Productions company. Bilton is producing as well.
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