Paul Schrader Reveals Why Leonardo DiCaprio and Shah Rukh Khan Film 'Xtreme City' Was Shelved

The cross-cultural Hollywood-Bollywood project faltered due to creative differences and wavering commitments from its stars.

Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Shah Rukh Khan met in Berlin in 2011 to discuss the ambitious film 'Xtreme City.'
The film was envisioned as a Hollywood-Bollywood collaboration, with DiCaprio playing an American cop and Khan portraying an Indian gangster.
Creative differences arose as Shah Rukh Khan, accustomed to significant creative control in Bollywood, struggled with the constraints of working under an auteur director.
Both Khan and DiCaprio's commitments shifted from firm to provisional, ultimately leading to the project's collapse.
Schrader considered recasting Khan with Salman Khan but abandoned the idea, citing potential backlash from Shah Rukh Khan.