LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is joining forces with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to make a movie spanning three decades in the music business.
Scorsese, 64, who on Monday won the best director Oscar for The Departed, will direct The Long Play and work with Jagger and the British rocker's business partner Victoria Pearman to produce the film, Paramount Pictures has announced.
The studio said that Jagger came up with the idea for The Long Play several years ago.
William Monahan, who also won an Oscar for writing The Departed, will write the screenplay.
This is not the first time that Scorsese and Jagger, 63, have worked together. They recently collaborated on a feature length documentary about the Rolling Stones, which will be released in the fall.
Portions were shot during a two-night stand at New York's Beacon Theater late last year.
Jagger's production company, Jagged Films, has made such movies as the World War Two thriller Enigma.
Together with Dave Stewart from Eurythmics, Jagger won a Golden Globe two years ago for co-writing a song for the remake of the movie Alfie.
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