Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio to reunite for seventh time on The Wager

Dynamic duo Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are teaming up once again for an adaptation of David Grann's book The Wager: a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, & Murder for Apple TV.

This will be the seventh feature film with Scorsese as director and DiCaprio as star. Most well known are The Wolf of Wallstreet, Shutter Island, and Gangs of New York.

Grann's book is a work of non-fiction that tells the tale of the HSM Wager: a Royal Navy ship wrecked off the coast of South America in 1741 while searching for Spanish treasure. Two groups of sailors survived, one landing in Brazil and one in Chile. Each had their own tales to tell about starvation, mutiny, and subsequent trial back on land. The Wager is a "grand tale of human behavior at the extremes." 

Happy to announce my new book, "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, & Murder," is done! About castaways stranded on a desolate island who descend into anarchy & murder. And about how people and nations tell stories—and manipulate them. https://t.co/6RF9B44atA

— David Grann (@DavidGrann) July 19, 2022

Funnily enough, this is not the first time Scorsese has made a film adaptation of a Grann novel with DiCaprio as the star. Killers of the Flower Moon is currently in post-production with no release date just yet, and is based on another true story about murders within the Osage Nation in the 1920s. Along with DiCaprio it stars Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, and Tantoo Cardinal. It was also funded by Apple TV.

Scorsese has had his issues in the past with streaming services, denouncing their devaluation of cinema. He explains how films have been reduced down to "content," and "treat the viewer as a consumer and nothing else." However, his past few works have been financed by Netflix and Apple TV+ after traditional studios have turned down his massive budgets.