Nick Bilton (left) and Martin Scorsese. New “60 Minutes” boss Nick Bilton‘s movie with Martin Scorsese is still going full steam ahead despite his new gig as the executive producer of the celebrated CBS News program.
The A-list Hollywood project might not dispel the notion among his detractors that Bilton doesn’t have a serious enough background for the venerable show.
But insiders tell Page Six Hollywood that Bilton is actually “95% done” with a new revision on the screenplay incorporating the “Mean Streets” director’s notes that’s due this summer.
Nick Bilton arrives for the premiere Of EPIX’s “Berlin Station” held at Milk Studios on September 29, 2016 in Hollywood. Getty Images Like a scene from Robert Altman’s “The Player,” Hollywood lunches around town have been rife with rumors about Bilton’s Scorsese film. There’s been scuttlebutt that Bilton previously gave Scorsese a treatment for the project — then immediately turned around a draft of the full screenplay in less than two weeks.
Another rumor is that Bilton will decamp from “60 Minutes” in October for the month to head to Hawaii while the movie shoots.
Neither are true, according to Hollywood sources familiar with the project that will star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Leo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt.
The former Vanity Fair scribe — who was named EP of “60 Minutes” by Bari Weiss last month — sold the project about an underworld boss gunning to take over the Hawaiian islands in the 1970s last year to Disney with Scorsese and the stars on board. Bilton, DiCaprio, Johnson, Blunt and Scorsese would all be among the film’s producers, Deadline previously reported.
Bilton and Johnson also sold a book on the true crime story last year to Crown. The book and film both follow “the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of Hawaii’s most notorious crime syndicate, ‘the Company,’ led by Wilford ‘Nappy’ Pulawa, the first and only Hawaiian mob boss in history.”
Martin Scorsese attends the “Taxi Driver” screening at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center during the Tribeca Festival on June 5, 2026, in New York. AP Photo/CJ Rivera But since Bilton landed the “60 Minutes” gig, sources have been wondering how he can juggle a Scorsese film, a book launch and his day job.
“He sold the movie to Disney a year ago and spent about eight months working on a draft,” said an insider. We hear that, “everyone was ecstatic,” including, “the Disney team, The Rock and Emily [Blunt].” Bilton then met Scorsese in NYC about four months ago, we hear, to get notes from the filmmaking icon.
“Marty wanted it to be more voice-over-y, more ‘Goodfellas,'” said a film insider. “Those were the marching orders Nick was given, and he spent the last four months” implementing the notes, “fully knowing that his job [at ’60 Minutes’] would be starting.”
According to Hollywood sources, Bilton knew well in advance about the “60 Minutes” gig. “He spent four months working on this… he’s 95% done,” said a film source familiar with the project.
And while there have been rumors the film will shoot in October, sources say it ain’t so and that the movie — which has yet to be greenlit — won’t begin filming until next year, or even the year after that.
Publishing sources tell us that that the Bilton and Johnson book on the crime saga will hit shelves in the first quarter of next year. “It’s such a wild story,” said the source. “They found millions of documents… if it wasn’t true, you’d never believe it.”
Disney, CBS and Bilton have not commented. Puck reported last month that Bilton got a special carve out from CBS to continue working on the blockbuster Scorsese project.
