Trailer teases never-before-seen footage and star interviews as Scorsese probes good vs. evil.
Martin Scorsese’s lifelong wrestling with the nature of good and evil takes center stage in the first trailer for Mr. Scorsese, Rebecca Miller’s five-part docuseries arriving on Apple TV+ on Oct. 17.
The trailer threads together clips from Scorsese’s most indelible films—Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and others—while the director’s own voice asks the heavy questions that have defined his career: “Who are we? Are we intrinsically good or evil?”
Directed by Miller, the series is being billed as an “intimate and richly layered examination” of one of cinema’s most influential figures, and the trailer leans hard into that promise. Viewers are given a rare, reflective Scorsese: pensive, probing and repeatedly returning to the moral conflicts that fuel his characters and stories.
It’s a portrait that wants to understand not just the movies but the conscience behind them.
The docuseries assembles an impressive roster of collaborators, friends and family to help tell that story. Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio—two actors whose careers are deeply entwined with Scorsese’s—appear alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, Jodie Foster, Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett and Mick Jagger.
Key creative partners like editor Thelma Schoonmaker and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto also weigh in, and the director’s personal circle—his wife Helen Morris, his children and childhood friends—round out the intimate access.
Rebecca Miller, known for narrative films that blend personal insight with strong performances, brings a sensibility well-suited to a project that promises both archival treasure and candid conversation.
Executive producers include Miller and Damon Cardasis of Round Films, with additional production support from several industry names and companies, signaling a carefully produced deep dive rather than a quick celebratory roundup.
For fans and casual viewers alike, the trailer suggests Mr. Scorsese will function as both a celebration and a reckoning: a look back at a half-century of work and a search for the underlying moral questions that recur throughout it.
Whether you come for the film clips, the star-studded interviews or Scorsese’s own rumination on story and morality, Oct. 17 looks set to offer a rare, up-close conversation with a director who has long made our cinematic consciences uncomfortable — and fascinated.
