It was a meeting of heavyweights. Over the weekend, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier came face to face here in Berlin.
Their encounter provoked a flurry of speculation in the Danish media about a potential collaboration between the two directors. It has been speculated that von Trier was going to have Scorsese re-do "Taxi Driver."
Zentropa sources have been busy denying the rumors. “I have seen it [the story] in the Danish film magazine and what is written there is not true,” von Trier’s business partner Peter Aalbaek Jensen told Screen Daily. Jensen confirmed the directors had met at the Berlinale but said rumors von Trier wanted to re-make "Taxi Driver" were “rubbish.”
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