Martin Scorsese directing THE FALCON'S TALE?
Martin Scorsese is adding another potential directing vehicle to his proposed list of projects once he has done filming his upcoming movie SHUTTER ISLAND. Production Weekly have Scorsese's name listed to direct THE FALCON'S TALE which /film have rigorously reasearched as belonging to Playboy, Paramount and GK Films. James Keane and author/reporterHillel Levin's article The Strange Redemption of James Keene, appeared in the August 2008 issue of Playboy on page 54. A book adaptation is due out in the fall of 2009 and this must be the story Scorsese has attached himself too...
James Keene was serving a 10-year-to-life sentence as a convicted drug dealer when the FBI came to him with an amazing offer. They wanted him to enter a high-security prison for the criminally insane in order to get information from a suspected serial killer awaiting retrial. If he helped them succeed, they would free James from prison. Only one person in the prison would know Jims true identity.So it's a little like the mole plot of THE DEPARTED. Naturally, William Monahan, the Academy Award winning scribe of THE DEPARTED will write the adaptation. Doesn't that sound interesting? Not sure about the title though.