Martin Scorsese Will Direct Robbie Robertson Tribute Concert Film

Martin Scorsese will direct the filming of Thursday night time’s Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson.

The live performance is happening on the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, and is scheduled to characteristic Trey Anastasio, Ryan Bingham, Mike Campbell, Eric Church, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Warren Haynes, Bruce Hornsby, Jim James, Jamey Johnson, Noah Kahan, Daniel Lanois, Taj Mahal, Van Morrison, Margo Price, Robert Randolph, Nathaniel Rateliff, Allison Russell, Mavis Staples, Benmont Tench, Don Was, Bobby Weir and Lucinda Williams.

Scorsese was already listed as a producer of the live performance, although additional particulars on what format the movie will take haven’t been introduced. Several of the aforementioned musicians will take the present on the highway for the Life Is a Carnival: Last Waltz Tour ’24, which begins Oct. 19.

Martin Scorsese and Robbie Robertson’s Relationship

Scorsese and Robertson’s working relationship and friendship went again a long time. Scorsese directed the 1976 live performance movie The Last Waltz, marking the final efficiency of the Band’s five-man lineup. In the years that adopted, Robertson typically scored music for Scorsese’s movies, together with however not restricted to The King of Comedy (1982), Gangs of New York (2002) and most lately Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).

“I mean, we’re in awe ourselves that our brotherhood has outlasted everything,” Robertson said in an interview with Variety not long before he passed away in August of 2023. “I’m so pleased with our friendship and our work. It’s been only a present in life.”

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“Robbie Robertson was one among my closest mates, a relentless in my life and my work. I might all the time go to him as a confidante. A collaborator. An advisor. I attempted to be the identical for him,” Scorsese said in a statement following Robertson’s death. “It goes with out saying that he was a large, that his impact on the artwork type was profound and lasting. There’s by no means sufficient time with anybody you’re keen on. And I liked Robbie.”