Shutter Island is an upcoming horror
thriller directed by
Martin Scorsese
and starring
Leonardo DiCaprio.
The film is based on the 2003
novel of
the same name by
Dennis Lehane.
Production started in March 2008;
Shutter Island was
originally slated to be released on October 2, 2009, but
Paramount recently announced that it was going to push the film
towards a mid-February release in 2010.
Plot
In 1954,
two U.S. marshals investigate the
disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally
insane on an island in Massachusetts
. They run into trouble when they are
deceived by the hospital's chief administrator, a
hurricane hits and an inmate riot traps them on
the island.
Production
Feature film rights to the 2003 novel
Shutter Island by
Dennis Lehane were first optioned to
Columbia Pictures in 2003, but the rights
lapsed back to the author. The author's representatives then sold
the rights to the production company Phoenix Pictures, who hired
screenwriter
Laeta Kalogridis to
script the novel for a film adaptation. The project was in
development for a year. By October 2007, the project had developed
into a co-production between the studios
Columbia Pictures and
Paramount Pictures. Director
Martin Scorsese and actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, who had worked together
on three films, were both attracted to
Shutter Island as
their next collaboration.
Locations like Massachusetts, Connecticut
, and Nova
Scotia
were scouted. Production began on
March 6, 2008.
Production
took place in Taunton, Massachusetts
to film World War II
flashback scenes of DiCaprio's character, a former soldier.
Scorsese
filmed the scenes in old industrial buildings in Taunton's Whittenton Mills
Complex
, which replicated the Dachau
concentration camp
. Extras portraying the Dachau prisoners were
called back to reshoot a scene in July, due to the film of one
scene being damaged due to an improperly sealed film shipping
container.
Scenes were filmed at the old Medfield State
Hospital
in Medfield, Massachusetts
. Peddocks Island
was used as a setting for the story's island and
East Point, in Nahant, Massachusetts
for the lighthouse scenes. Filming ended on
July 2, 2008.
Additional footage was filmed in Los Angeles
and wrapped in July 2009.
In
Total Film magazine, Scorsese
says one of his influences on the film was
Orson Welles' 1962 film
The Trial — an adaptation of
Franz Kafka's
novel — in particular its use of corridors,
tunnels,
claustrophobic ceilings, and
angular lenses. He also discusses the importance of costume choices
as an element of characterization, noting that a striking choice
can leave a subconscious imprint of a character's essence in the
spectator's mind: in
Shutter Island, he made Dr. Cawley
smoke a pipe, and in some scenes of the film he seems covered by a
cloud of smoke, hiding something, with an aura of malice and
mystery.
Cast
Release
The film
was scheduled to be released by Paramount Pictures on October 2, 2009 in
the United
States
and Canada
.
Paramount later annouced it was going to push back the release date
to February 19, 2010; Reports attribute the pushback to Paramount
not having "the financing in 2009 to spend the $50 to $60 million
necessary to market a big awards pic like this," DiCaprio's
unavailability to promote the film internationally, and Paramount's
hope that the economy might rebound enough by February 2010 that a
film geared toward adult audiences would be more viable
financially.
Spanish
distributor
Manga Films will distribute the film in Spain after winning a
bidding war that reportedly reached the $6 million to $8 million
range.
References
-
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/shocker-paramount-moving-scorsesedicaprios-shutter-island-to-february-2010/
- Scream 2009: Exclusive Shutter Island
Trailer
- Comingsoon.net
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