20.05.12

Best known for his gritty adult dramas "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," "Mean Streets," "Goodfellas," "Gangs of New York" and "The Departed," Scorsese is equally renowned for his encyclopedic knowledge of cinema and advocacy for film preservation. This marks his first family movie.

"I made this book thinking it could not be filmed because the book, at the end of the story, the object of the book itself actually becomes part of the plot. And what happens when you turn the page because a big chunk of the narrative in my book is told with images like a movie. But even so, it's celebrating movies. It's really about what happens when you turn the page, and the power of the book itself," Selznick, who is distantly related to "Gone with the Wind" and "King Kong" producer David O. Selznick , told reporters in New York recently.

Source: UPI.com