Martin Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’ to be adapted into HBO series

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’ to be adapted into HBO series

The 2010 film's famed director reportedly will also helm the HBO series' pilot.

Martin Scorsese’s 2010 psychological thriller Shutter Island, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio as a U.S. Marshal tasked with investigating a disappearance at a hospital for the criminally insane, will soon be developed into an HBO series. According to Deadline.com, the famed director will return to direct the pilot, tentatively titled Ashecliffe.

“The series was an idea by Paramount TV head Amy Powell, who brought it to Scorsese and LBI’s Yorn and Chris Donnelly and Brad Fischer, a producer of the original movie who is now partners in Mythology Entertainment with Kalogridis and James Vanderbilt. The plan is for the pilot to be directed by Martin Scorsese from a script by Dennis Lehane, who wrote the bestselling thriller novel that Scorsese and screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis turned into the hit film that Leonardo DiCaprio starred in,” reports Deadline.

“Ashecliffe is the name of the isolated mental hospital where the movie took place, and the series begins before the events of the film. The focus is the past of hospital, and the secrets and misdeeds perpetrated by its founders who erected the hospital in the early 20th century and developed the methods of treatment use for the mentally ill.”

This would not be Scorsese’s first time directing an HBO pilot, as the famed director also helmed the pilot for Boardwalk Empire, and is also working on an untitled 1970s rock ‘n’ roll project for the network alongside Mick Jagger, Boardwalk Empire creator and The Wolf of Wall Street writer Terence Winter.

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