New Martin Scorsese film: ‘Asheville’

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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OK, this is a little confusing. But follow: Marty Scorsese is making a movie, an adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel. First it was called Shutter Island. Then is was going to be titled Ashecliffe. Now apparently the movie is called Asheville.

Here’s the reference:

He may be 64, but Sir Ben Kingsley has apparently revealed that Mary-Kate Olsen was in the leading seat for their kissing scene in their new film, The Wackness.

The British actor and the 22-year-old had an enthusiastic and passionate kissing scene in a phone booth in the movie.

“She was completely in charge,” Ben told People.com at the film’s after-party on Wednesday night at the Gramercy Roof Club.

The Gandhi and Schindler’s List star drove down from Boston, Massachusetts, where he is currently filming Asheville with Martin Scorsese, for the film’s Cinema Society and Sony Cierge-sponsored party, where he turned up with his wife Daniela. She had only kind words for her hubby’s work.

Here’s a description of the movie:

t’s a period piece set in 1954 and has DiCaprio and Ruffallo playing a U.S. Marshalls named Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule respectively. Daniels and Aule investigates the disappearance of a criminally insane murderess. She’s hiding in a remote place in Massachusetts named Shutter Island. I guess there’s a big Wolf Camera there or something. Von Sydow will play a physician at a looney bin. Mortimer will play Rachel, an escaped patient, and Haley is another looney bin inmate.