Martin Scorsese has settled a lawsuit from an aspiring screenwriter who accused him of pocketing $500,000 to help develop a World War II movie — and then doing nothing. Simon Afram wrote ...

U.K.-based production company Op-Fortitude, created to make the film, alleges that Scorsese accepted a $500,000 initial payment to personally assemble an all-star cast for Operation: Fortitude and ...

The deception campaign, Operation Fortitude, had succeeded magnificently. Taylor Downing's new book The Army that Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception has just been published by Icon Books.

Martin Scorsese Settles Lawsuit That Claimed He Was Paid $500,000 to Develop WWII Film – But Did Nothing. The initial complaint also said the filmmaker declined to refund the half-million-dollar ...

Martin Scorsese has settled with an aspiring filmmaker who claimed the director did nothing after taking $500,000 to help develop his script.