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STARBUZZ: Marty’s medical silence
Martin Scorsese needs to go to the doctor. The 61-year-old director just got sued in New York State Supreme Court by the producers of his future project Silence because he won’t get a medical exam. Hollywood Gangs Productions wants to insure Scorsese for $1 million just in case something happens to him before he lenses their film, about 16th-century Jesuits in Japan tortured by the samurai they try to convert.
“This was to be his third film in a religious trilogy with The Last Temptation of Christ and Kundun, but he jerked them around for 13 years,” a source says. “They simply want to protect their investment.”
Before finally shooting Silence, Scorsese (who settled another suit with Hollywood Gangs in February) must first finish editing The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, and shooting Brad Pitt’s The Departed.
Scorsese’s rep said: “He’s in the middle of finishing up the The Aviator, which is a priority. He simply has been busy in the post(-production) work on that movie and has every intention of doing an exam in the immediate future.”—Rush and Molloy
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