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(“Matthew, I need you to change your name…and that stupid face, alright?”)

Stop working on that sh–ty Boston accent already and listen up, because I’ve got Martin Scorsese movie news to curb stomp you with. The Oscar-jerking director is currently in talks to adapt author Brian Selznick’s children’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

Story centers on a 12-year-old orphan named Hugo, who lives in a train station and must finish what his late father started by solving the mystery of a broken robot.[Variety]

Okay, I’m sold. Throw the phrases “lives in a train station” with “mystery of the broken robot”* and I can’t help but just hand you my wallet. Similarly, waving a gun in my face has the same affect.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret would reunite Scorsese with Graham King, producer of The Departed, working off another script from The Aviator scribe, John Logan. Sounds like a pretty solid roster for any film, despite the fact that the screenplay comes from a guy with two first names.

-chodin

*which coincidentally is also my girlfriend’s euphemism for when I can’t get hard.