Christopher Nolan to Direct a Howard Hughes Biopic After The Dark ...

Scorsese based his film on a book called Howard Hughes: The Secret Life, while Nolan is looking at Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness. Nolan is much more interested in Hughes' reclusive and paranoid later years, where he holed up at the Beverly Hills Hotel and sat naked and alone as his mental and physical health slowly deteriorated. While it's true that Scorsese skimmed over this part of his life, it's hard to say if there is enough material there to ...