Sacha Baron Cohen Joins Scorsese’s Invention
19.03.10 # News # 2 Comments
Sir Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) and Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass) have all joined the cast of Martin Scorsese’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Based on Brian Selznick’s children’s fantasy novel, the story is set in the 1930’s and follows an orphan who lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station maintaining the clocks. Attempting to repair a mechanical man, he becomes caught up in a strange adventure.
After hearing that Martin Scorsese was adapting The Invention of Hugo Cabret I thought i’d check the book out to see why the great director had picked it. I was immediately enchanted by it. The book combines elements of film, comics and novels to create something quite original. In many ways it’s an obvious choice for film adaptation as it is sort of like a more detailed storyboard. Because of this, I can’t help think it is a bit too easy, especially for a director of Scorsese’s calibre. Nevertheless, I am interested to see what he does with it.
Source: Dark Horizons

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Chloe Moretz is Hit Girl in Kick-Ass. So Scorsese’s next is going to star Hit Girl. Pretty cool.
Still, shame it’s not the Frank Sinatra biopic he was planning.
Way more excited for this than the Sinatra biopic! Mainly because we’ve seen Scorsese do one of those, but we haven’t seen him do one of these.
Also, the cast is AWESOME.