Mike Fleming followed up his scoop with news that Chloe Moretz (Hitgirl from Kick-Ass, and leads the upcoming Let The Right One In remake) and Brit Asa Butterfield (The Boy With The Striped Pjama's) have joined Scorsese's adventure movie. Moretz, who has considerable Kick-Ass buzz, will play the lead. As Fleming says, so strange to see Scorsese handle a kids movie when there probably isn't one of his features you would ever show to a kid.
So
Sir. Ben Kingsley (as silent filmmaker George Melies in a major role) and
Sacha Baron Cohen (as a train inspector)
are the first two names cast in Martin Scorsese's next picture, a children's fantasy adventure based on Brian Selznick's book
The Invention of Hugo Cabaret. Great, no complaints here. Selznick's illustrated novel centers on a 12 year orphan who lives within the walls of a Paris train station in 1930, which by my account makes it Scorsese's first ever family orientated motion picture. With the novel celebrating gorgeous black-and-white images reminiscent of the silent movie era, and because of the setting; classic French movies - do we expect Scorsese; the walking film encyclopedia to reference these genres in
Cabaret as much as he did
Val Lewton and film noir with
Shutter Island? The movie based on
John Logan's screenplay (
Sweeney Todd, The Aviator) films in Paris on June 1st.