American director Martin Scorsese is collaborating with Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio for another AppleTV project, The Wager. 

The two are already working on Killers of the Flower Moon, that’ll release on the same platform, but recently a project delay was announced, and it is now expected to arrive in 2023. 

The Hollywood Reporter first broke the news of the new project, which is also based on New Yorker journalist David Grann’s book. Notably, Killers of the Flower Moon also takes the story from a book by Grann and looks at the murders of Osage people in the 1920s. 

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Scorsese last worked with DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street, where the 47-year-old played Jordan Belfort, the Wall Street investor who scammed his clients. The two have had many projects, and successes together – one only needs to remember The Departed, which finally won Scorsese an Oscar for Best Picture. Here’s all you need to know about The Wager, the latest DiCaprio-Scorsese movie. 

The Wager plot 

The film is based on Grann’s nonfiction book, titled The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder. 

The story is set in the 1740s when 30 men arrive on the coast of Brazil in a boat that’s patched together. They were survivors of a British ship in pursuit of a Spanish vessel. It ended up crashing onto an island, in the Patagonia region in South America. 

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The stories of how they survived the seas and elements cemented their place as heroes. Six months later, a boat in a worse condition arrives in Chile with three sailors, who accuse the occupants of the previous boat of being mutineers. The British Admiralty launch a trial which uncovers a story of a captain and his crew surviving their human natures while battling harsh climes. 

The Wager release date

The Wager movie does not have a release date yet. The book, on which the upcoming film is based, is slated to hit the shelves in  April 2023.