Famed filmmaker Martin Scorsese will be on the other side of the camera in Apple TV+’s new five-part documentary series, Mr. Scorsese.
Directed by award-winning director Rebecca Miller, Mr. Scorsese will dive into his prolific career and the life experiences that helped shape his artistic vision.
The documentary series boasts unprecedented access to the filmmaker and his inner circle, featuring sit-down interviews with Scorsese himself, but also input from his close friends and collaborators including Steven Spielberg, Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, and more. Scorsese’s wife, Helen Morris, and his children will also offer some input throughout the doc.
Apple TV+ dropped a first-look trailer, which can be viewed at the top of this page, in which Scorsese and Spielberg share a “never-before-told” story about how Scorsese reacted to the studio’s edits for Taxi Driver.
“Marty was very upset,” Spielberg says in the clip. Impersonating Scorsese, he recounted the director telling him, “They want me to cut all the blood spurting, they want me to cut the guy who loses his hand.”
In the clip, Scorsese rolls his eyes as he admits in the clip that he said at the time he was going to get a gun to “threaten” the studio.
“I was gonna get one… but I wasn’t gonna get it. I was angry I said I’m gonna threaten them or maybe just shoot or something, I have no idea. I was threatening,” he admits. “What I wanted to do – but not with a gun – I would go in and find out where the rough cut is and break the windows and take it away.”
He continued, “They’re gonna destroy the film anyway so let me destroy it. I’ll destroy it, but before destroying it, I’m gonna steal it.”
Scorsese admitted that Spielberg and others tried to talk him out of it. “The more they said no the more I said I was gonna do it,” he says with a laugh in the film.
Spielberg reveals that the film was ultimately saved when someone suggested color editing the film. “What if we took that whole sequence and toned the color down and made it feel more like a tabloid and make it grainy,” Spielberg says. “It saved the movie because he didn’t have to cut any of the violence he just had to take the color red down to a kind of brown.”
How to watch Mr. Scorsese:
All five parts of Mr. Scorsese will be available to stream on Apple TV+ beginning Friday Oct. 17.
Apple TV+ comes with a seven-day free trial for new subscribers and has just one ad-free streaming plan available for $9.99/month.
Scroll up to check out the first-look trailer of Mr. Scorsese.
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