Well, it’s official: Martin Scorsese’s mystery drama, due in 2009 and formerly known as Shutter Island, is now entitled Ashecliffe. New title is the name of the plot’s asylum located on the fictional island off Boston harbor. No word on why the title was changed. I keep thinking of a fat kid with a pinwheel hat pronouncing it “Asscliffe” while producing lots of drool to entertain himself. Shutter Island is also the name of the 2003 Dennis Lehane novel on which the film is based.
Dehane is quoted as saying his novel is a cross between the classic, romantic imagery found in Bronte sisters’ literature (Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre) and the paranoid creepiness of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers from 1956, the decade in which the book is based. I wouldn’t read it, but I’d watch it. Scorsese’s film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, the currently mourning Michelle Williams, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley (hot off The Wackness) and Patricia Clarkson. And if you’re a babe wondering about Sly Stallone, he’s no longer rumored to be involved. So, babe, you like Rambo, huh?
All of the details thus far make it sound like an ideal bookend to the director’s wonderfully deranged and tension-bubbling remake of Cape Fear from 1991. As long as the fat, drooling kid above doesn’t sit behind me, call me siked. And is it just me, or does Paramount seem like its behind all of the surefire moneymaking powerhouse flicks these days?
February 21st, 2008 at 6:42 pm
The filming has begun, or will soon. Paramounts office is in my building in Boston and Leo and Marty are definitely in town!
March 12th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
They were just filming on Monday down the street from me in a big warehouse. Leo was there! It was so exciting. I never in my wildest dreams thought that they would film any movie in Taunton, Massachusetts or around it! I can’t wait till the movie comes out next year!!!
April 14th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
They are filming the movie in Nahant Massachusetts in a month. I am so excited something excited that something interesting is happening in this 1 square mile town!
May 1st, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Hollywood comes to Easton! Starting next week they will be filming at Borderland State Park. The Lodge down by Leachs Pond will be the spot to check out.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:29 am
THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. SCORSESE FOR COMING TO THE BOSTON AREA. I LOVE THE MOVIE’S THAT YOU MAKE AND YOU SEEM TO ALWAYS PICK THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO STAR IN THE MOVIE.
GREAT JOB EVERYONE.
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MOVIE.
Melisa Goodchild
Attleboro,MA
May 29th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
they were filming at a park in dedham yesterday, not sure if they are still there but they were in the woods.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
filming at borderland state park at this very moment i tried to get in the park but they would not let me go into the area surounding leach pond