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High Times for Scorsese: after Dylan, The Stones, it’s now time for Marley

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I’ve mentioned it before – Marty Scorsese is passionate about music
as he is with film. The two seem to merge well under his guise and
hence the reason why he has been entrusted with the heavy task of
documenting the legacy of the reggae icon and Rastafarian singer that
exited this planet way too early.

The director has according to Variety signed up with Shangri-La Entertainment and international sales agent Fortissimo Films – the same pair that have worked on his Berlin Film Festival opener Shine a Light.

The Untitled Martin Scorsese Bob Marley
documentary will most certainly shove aside Untitled Martin Scorsese George Harrison
documentary and for that matter, a ton of other projects (see complete listings here) since it is pegged for a Feb. 6, 2010, on what would have been Marley’s 65th birthday.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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