NO TAXI DRIVER FOR VON TRIER
LARS VON TRIER’s business partner has dismissed rumours the Danish direct= or is in talks with MARTIN SCORSESE and ROBERT DE NIRO to resurrect TAXI = DRIVER - blasting the reports as "rubbish." The new movie was rumoured to see De Niro reprise his role as troubled = New York cab driver Travis Bickle in a sequel to the 1976 classic, which = gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
But Von Trier’s longtime producing partner Peter Aalbaek Jensen is adam= ant film fans shouldn’t get their hopes up.
He tells ScreenDaily.com, "I have seen it (the story) in the Danish fil= m magazine and what is written there is not true. (It’s) rubbish." (LR/WN=
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