Scorcese To Direct Harrison Docu
According to Variety:
Martin Scorcese has committed to direct an untitled documentary about the life of George Harrison.
The docu is being constructed as a theatrical release, and the Harrison family, including his widow, Olivia, will supply materials from its extensive archive. Interviews and early production will begin later this year, and the film will take several years to complete.
Pic will cover Harrison’s Beatles career and later years that included a successful solo music career as well as a foray as a movie mogul when he backed Handmade Films and made pics such as “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” and “Time Bandits.” Scorsese, who explored themes of faith in “Kundun” and “The Last Temptation of Christ,” will also focus closely on the Eastern spiritual pursuits that were central to Harrison’s life.
The docu will be edited by David Tedeschi, who served the same role on the Scorsese-directed Rolling-Stones film “Shine A Light.” Tedeschi was also editor on Scorsese’s movie about Bob Dylan.
“George Harrison’s music and his search for spiritual meaning is a story that still resonates today and I’m looking forward to delving deeper,” Scorsese said.
It is expected that Harrison’s surviving Beatles bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will participate, as well as the Beatles’ Apple Records, which counts Olivia Harrison a partner.
Harrison met her husband in 1974 and they were together until he died of lung cancer at age 58 in 2001. The two of them famously fought off and subdued an attacker who broke into the Harrison home and stabbed the guitarist several times in 1999. She was also the catalyst for the tribute show “The Concert for George,” and organized a reissue of “The Concert for Bangladesh,” which Harrison put together in 1971.
