Martin Scorsese and William Monahan remaking The Gambler

The Departed team of director Martin Scorsese and film writer William Monahan are turning their focus on another remake: 1974's The Gambler.Scorsese aficionados is going to be unsurprised to understand the pair want their Departed leading guy Leonardo DiCaprio to star.The Hollywood Reporter states the pair are developing the remake, though taking Scorsese's growing to-do list into consideration (Silence, The Wolf Of Wall Street), it isn't obvious whenever we can really expect this.The initial Gambler starred James Caan being an British professor who's privately caught within the grip of the gambling addiction, which type of undercuts all individuals inspiring vibes he's been delivering to his students.Czech filmmaker Karel Reisz (Saturday Evening And Sunday Morning, In France They Lieutenant's Lady) directed the initial.It may sound like it is the type of role DiCaprio makes their own: a good-at-heart bloke come to breaking point by some demon or any other.And he's hardly prone to refuse to his old mucker Scorsese, getting starred in four from his five last features.We'll keep our ear down on that one, that will without doubt gather pace if D-Cappz signs on. In the end, the final time these men met up for any remake, it did not come out bad, right?Martin Scorsese's next, Hugo, is placed to spread out on 2 December 2011.