Martin Scorsese talks on
stage during his master class on movie making, at the International
film festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 24,
2007.[AP]
Martin Scorsese will direct a documentary film on the late
Beatles guitarist George Harrison.
"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 in an e-mailed press release Thursday.
"It would have given George great joy to know that Martin
Scorsese has agreed to tell his story," Harrison's widow, Olivia,
said.
Scorsese, who won his first Academy Award this year for
directing "The Departed," has made other films focusing on music
stars, including the 2005 documentary "No Direction Home: Bob
Dylan" and 1978's "The Last Waltz."
Harrison, born in Liverpool, England, and the youngest of the
Beatles, died at 58 in Los Angeles on Nov. 29, 2001, after battling
lung cancer and a brain tumor.
(Agencies via Chinadaily.com.cn September 28, 2007)
