Scorsese Directs Hugo Cabret

It’s been a good week for Martin Scorsese. After winning the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes this past Sunday, it’s now confirmed that Scorsese is back in the director’s chair for the film adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

Scorsese and producer Graham King got the rights to the acclaimed childrens book in 2007, and was very keen on directing it himself.  Since then, his schedule has been filled with more pressing projects and the job of directing was to go to Chris Wedge (Ice Age & Robots).  According to Variety, Wedge is off the project and Scorsese is back in the director’s chair and apparently wants to make this his next film.

The book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret was written by Brian Selznick. It is a 2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal winner. It follows the life of a 12 year old orphan boy who lives in a Paris train station after World War Two, taking care of the clocks there.  He tries to finish building his father’s last invention, a mechanical man.

John Logan, a long time Scorsese collaborator will be penning the script. Both Sony and Paramount are in talks for distribution rights.  Shooting starts early June in London.