The legendary movie maker Martin Scorsese has hired a whole bunch of British actors for his first 3D movie, the family orientated The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Scorsese is currently shooting the movie in Surrey, England.
Sir Ben Kingsley, Sir Christopher Lee, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Sacha Baron Cohen and Richard Griffiths will appear will star in the flick, which happens to be being produced by one Johnny Depp.
Hugo will be played by Asa Butterfield, a 13-year-old from north London whose credits include The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and Nanny McPhee.
The film combines the fictional tale of Hugo with the real-life story of George Méliès, a pioneering French film-maker who fell on hard times in the 1920s and was reduced to working in a toy kiosk at Montparnasse station. The two characters meet when Hugo finds one of Méliès’ discarded toys, and they develop a friendship.
