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Iceland’s Baltasar Korma- kur is directing the film, which tells the story of how eight climbers lost their lives when a rogue storm struck the mountain. Communications ministry official Umakant Parajuli said the team was permitted to shoot in the Himalayan nation for two weeks. He declined to comment on whether the shoot would include a stint on the famed peak this month, when temperatures are ex- pected to be at their lowest level annually. British newspaper The Guardian reported Gyllen- haal would play Scott Fisher, a US expedition leader who died in the disaster while Brolin will play Beck Weath- ers, an American doctor who survived the storm. US mountaineering jour- nalist Jon Krakauer, who ac- companied the Everest climbers on their ascent, wrote about the tragedy in his 1997 bestseller. How to escape studio’s wolves 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 to work’ NEW YORK: You’d think Martin Scorsese would be full of great memories about The Departed, the Boston-set gangster film that finally earned him a directing Oscar after five failed nominations. But Scorsese does not have too many positive things to say about his time making the 2006 crime thriller. The behind-the-scenes butt- ing of heads with Warner Bros studio executives on The Departed changed the way Scorsese approached projects. The 71-year-old born-and- bred New Yorker, whose oth- er landmark movies include Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Gangs Of New York, became wary of working in the Hol- lywood studio system. He wanted to avoid the in- put from studio suits who made script notes or suggest- ions, such as the concerns he said someone had with the sole female lead in The Departed, played by Vera Farmiga, who was sleeping with the characters por- trayed by Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio. ‘‘We were dealing with a film about guys in a street war where everybody is be- traying each other, but some people were concerned the woman was in love with two men at the same time and sleeping with both of them,’’ Scorsese said. ‘‘I said, ‘I don’t know what to tell you. It happens’. ‘‘I think it is concern for corporate image.’’ Scorsese said there was also concern about DiCap- rio’s character dying at the end of The Departed. ‘‘They wanted the sequel,’’ Scorsese said. ‘‘I said, ‘What sequel?’.’’ So in 2007 when DiCaprio came to Scorsese with a plan to make The Wolf Of Wall Street, about the sex, drug and white-collar crime-filled true story of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, the director had reser- vations. The screenplay was based on Belfort’s best-selling memoir and Scorsese saw great potential, but Warner Bros was again involved. Scorsese feared, just like with The Departed, the studio would try to sanitise it. ‘‘We had our first meeting and similar things came up,’’ Scorsese said, adding some studio notes made to the script recommended Belfort show regret for taking drugs. ‘‘Afterwards I said, ‘It’s not going to work’. I knew I wouldn’t be able to give them what they wanted and it wasn’t worth it for me.’’ DiCaprio, who had spent time with Belfort and was desperate to play the stock- broker, kept at Scorsese. ‘‘I just felt the entire screen- play was insane,’’ DiCaprio said. ‘‘I couldn’t believe this guy lived through this.’’ In 2010 Ridley Scott was ap- proached to direct, but again it stalled until 2011 when inde- pendent film finance com- pany Red Granite bought the rights. DiCaprio went back to Scorsese. ‘‘I said, ‘I don’t want to talk about it. This thing, look at it. You have drugs in here. You have this and that. I have to be able to just do it’,’’ Scorsese told DiCaprio. Red Granite, which re- ceives its funding from Asian and Middle East investors and had $US100 million ($A112.43 million) to spend on The Wolf of Wall Street, grant- ed Scorsese his wish. ‘‘If you want to do a modern- day Caligula, you just don’t get financing for it ever, ever, ever,’’ said DiCaprio. ‘‘Our attitude going into it was, ‘Now that we have the opportunity, let’s just push the envelope every single day and see what extremes we could go through’.’’ The Wolf Of Wall Street opens in Australian cinemas next Thursday Stewart stewing LOS ANGELES: US actress Kristen Stewart has signed on to play the lead in director Drake Doremus’ futuristic love story Equals, and it’s making her a nervous wreck. ‘‘I can’t believe I agreed to do it,’’ said the Twilight star about her upcoming role in the sci-fi drama, which also stars Nicholas Hoult of the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past. Stewart describes Equals as a slightly updated ver- sion of the 1956 film 1984, based on George Orwell’s classic 1949 novel about re- bellion in a repressed futur- istic society. Equals begins filming later this year. ‘‘I’m terrified of it,’’ said the 23-year-old actress. ‘‘Though it’s a movie with a really basic concept, it’s overtly ambitious. ‘‘In Equals, things go wrong because you can’t deny the humanity in every- one. It’s the most devastat- ing story.’’ Adds Doremus of his sixth film: ‘‘It’s about love in a world where love really doesn’t exist any more.’’ Written by Nathan Parker (Moon), Equals is the first film Doremus will direct that he didn’t write himself. This week, Stewart heads to the Sundance Film Festi- val in Park City, Utah, where she’ll star in writer- director Peter Sattler’s soldier film Camp X-Ray.
