REELNEW:Reporting proposed Martin Scorsese films is almost as dangerous a business as examining imaginary upcoming projects by Quentin Tarantino. Remember that rumoured biopic of Frank Sinatra starring Leonardo DiCaprio? What about that film concerning 17th-century Jesuit priests featuring Daniel Day-Lewis?

All that acknowledged, it is probably worth recording that the great man is (it says here) "planning" a dramatic study of the tempestuous relationship between Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

Good luck casting that baby. Such deities no longer walk the Earth.