Ridley Scott is filling his plate again. With Robin Hood completed and released, Scott is turning his attention to a YouTube documentary and a potential re-pairing with Body of Lies star Leonardo DiCaprio.
The first is a user-generated, feature-length doc directed by Kevin Macdonald that Scott is producing under his Scott Free Productions banner. The press release touted it as the first of its kind, but there has least been one before it. Jeff Deutchman’s 11/4/08 is centered on the day Barack Obama was elected President and made entirely of reaction footage from amateurs who filmed the event.
MacDonald’s doc, titled “Life in a Day,” will weave together footage submitted by YouTube contributors on July 24, which will be prepared for a Sundance 2011 premiere. Twenty contributors will even be flown to Utah for the screening. Scott and MacDonald hope the film will serve as a snapshot of history and a “time capsule” of life in 2010.
I can’t imagine having to sit through hours and agonizing hours of what YouTube users feel is historic material. Whatever they come up with can’t possibly be better than my new favorite video (guy loses his mind over a double rainbow). For more information on how to participate, go to www.youtube.com/lifeinaday.
Meanwhile, Deadline is reporting Scott is eying directorial duties on “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the memoirs of Jordan Belfort about stockbrokers on the 1990s. Leonardo DiCaprio is in early discussions to star in the film, which he originally was set to make with Martin Scorsese two years ago.
DiCaprio and Scott had considered re-teaming on an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” for Universal last year. No word on whether that’s still the case or if this new Wall Street project will supersede that idea. Additionally, the twosome had discussed working together on Gucci about murder and decadence in high fashion.
Scott is already working on not one but two 3D prequels to his own Alien and will eventually get around to directing that awful-sounding Monopoly board game movie.
