Overview

• On Aug. 11 Apple TV+ released a first-look clip revealing Scorsese’s heated dispute with Columbia Pictures over Taxi Driver’s graphic violence.
• In the clip Scorsese recounts joking about fetching a gun and stealing the rough cut when executives demanded cuts to spurting blood.
• Steven Spielberg and others recall that the shootout’s blood was desaturated to secure an R rating, a compromise credited with saving the film.
• The five-part documentary directed by Rebecca Miller offers unrestricted access to Scorsese’s private archives and new interviews with him, his family and collaborators including Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jodie Foster.
• Executive producers Rebecca Miller, Damon Cardasis and Cindy Tolan worked with Round Films, Expanded Media, LBI Entertainment and Moxie Pictures to expand the project from a single film to a multi-part series.