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Stars outin NepalKATHMANDU: Hollywoodactors Jake Gyllenhaal andJosh Brolin have arrived inNepal to shoot a new filmbased on the Everest best-seller Into Thin Air.

Brolin and Gyllenhaalwill play the lead roles inthe film, named Everest,which will focus on an ill-fated attempt to scale theworld’s tallest mountainin 1996.

Iceland’s Baltasar Korma-kur is directing the film,which tells the story of howeight climbers lost theirlives when a rogue stormstruck the mountain.

Communications ministryofficial Umakant Parajulisaid the team was permittedto shoot in the Himalayannation for two weeks.

He declined to commenton whether the shoot wouldinclude a stint on thefamed peak this month,when temperatures are ex-pected to be at their lowestlevel annually.

British newspaper TheGuardian reported Gyllen-haal would play Scott Fisher,a US expedition leader whodied in the disaster whileBrolin will play Beck Weath-ers, an American doctor whosurvived the storm.

US mountaineering jour-nalist Jon Krakauer, who ac-companied the Everestclimbers on their ascent,wrote about the tragedy inhis 1997 bestseller.

How toescapestudio’swolves

Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from The Wolf Of Wall Street, about the sex, drug and white-collar crime-filled true story of stockbroker Jordan Belfort

By PETER MITCHELL

I said, ‘It’s not going

towork’

NEW YORK: You’d thinkMartin Scorsese would be fullof great memories about TheDeparted, the Boston-setgangster film that finallyearned him a directing Oscarafter five failed nominations.

But Scorsese does not havetoo many positive things tosay about his time makingthe 2006 crime thriller.

The behind-the-scenes butt-ing of heads with WarnerBros studio executives on TheDeparted changed the wayScorsese approached projects.

The 71-year-old born-and-bred New Yorker, whose oth-er landmark movies includeMean Streets, Taxi Driver,Raging Bull, Goodfellas andGangs Of New York, becamewary of working in the Hol-lywood studio system.

He wanted to avoid the in-put from studio suits whomade script notes or suggest-ions, such as the concerns hesaid someone had with thesole female lead in TheDeparted, played by VeraFarmiga, who was sleepingwith the characters por-trayed by Matt Damon andLeonardo DiCaprio.

‘‘We were dealing with a

film about guys in a streetwar where everybody is be-traying each other, but somepeople were concerned thewoman was in love with twomen at the same time andsleeping with both of them,’’Scorsese said.

‘‘I said, ‘I don’t know whatto tell you. It happens’.

‘‘I think it is concern forcorporate image.’’

Scorsese said there wasalso concern about DiCap-rio’s character dying at theend of The Departed.

‘‘They wanted the sequel,’’Scorsese said.

‘‘I said, ‘What sequel?’.’’So in 2007 when DiCaprio

came to Scorsese with a planto make The Wolf Of WallStreet, about the sex, drug andwhite-collar crime-filled truestory of stockbroker JordanBelfort, the director had reser-vations. The screenplay wasbased on Belfort’s best-selling

memoir and Scorsese sawgreat potential, but WarnerBros was again involved.

Scorsese feared, just likewith The Departed, the studiowould try to sanitise it.

‘‘We had our first meetingand similar things came up,’’Scorsese said, adding somestudio notes made to thescript recommended Belfortshow regret for taking drugs.

‘‘Afterwards I said, ‘It’s notgoing to work’. I knew Iwouldn’t be able to give themwhat they wanted and itwasn’t worth it for me.’’

DiCaprio, who had spenttime with Belfort and was

desperate to play the stock-broker, kept at Scorsese.

‘‘I just felt the entire screen-play was insane,’’ DiCapriosaid. ‘‘I couldn’t believe thisguy lived through this.’’

In 2010 Ridley Scott was ap-proached to direct, but againit stalled until 2011 when inde-pendent film finance com-pany Red Granite bought therights. DiCaprio went back toScorsese. ‘‘I said, ‘I don’t wantto talk about it. This thing,look at it. You have drugs inhere. You have this and that. Ihave to be able to just do it’,’’Scorsese told DiCaprio.

Red Granite, which re-

ceives its funding from Asianand Middle East investorsand had $US100 million($A112.43 million) to spend onThe Wolf of Wall Street, grant-ed Scorsese his wish.

‘‘If you want to do a modern-day Caligula, you just don’tget financing for it ever, ever,ever,’’ said DiCaprio.

‘‘Our attitude going into itwas, ‘Now that we have theopportunity, let’s just pushthe envelope every single dayand see what extremes wecould go through’.’’

The Wolf Of Wall Street

opens in Australian cinemas

next Thursday

StewartstewingLOS ANGELES: US actressKristen Stewart has signedon to play the lead in directorDrake Doremus’ futuristiclove story Equals, and it’smaking her a nervous wreck.

‘‘I can’t believe I agreed todo it,’’ said the Twilight starabout her upcoming role inthe sci-fi drama, which alsostars Nicholas Hoult of theupcoming X-Men: Days ofFuture Past.

Stewart describes Equalsas a slightly updated ver-sion of the 1956 film 1984,based on George Orwell’sclassic 1949 novel about re-bellion in a repressed futur-istic society. Equals beginsfilming later this year.

‘‘I’m terrified of it,’’ saidthe 23-year-old actress.

‘‘Though it’s a movie witha really basic concept, it’sovertly ambitious.

‘‘In Equals, things gowrong because you can’tdeny the humanity in every-one. It’s the most devastat-ing story.’’

Adds Doremus of his sixthfilm: ‘‘It’s about love in aworld where love reallydoesn’t exist any more.’’

Written by Nathan Parker(Moon), Equals is the firstfilm Doremus will directthat he didn’t write himself.

This week, Stewart headsto the Sundance Film Festi-val in Park City, Utah,where she’ll star in writer-director Peter Sattler’ssoldier film Camp X-Ray.