Martin Scorsese announces ‘Silver Ghost’, a Rolls Royce movie

American director Martin Scorsese, famous for his movies ‘Shutter Island’ and the more recent oscar-winning hit ‘Hugo’, announced that he will produce ‘Silver Ghost’, a film that tells us more about the people behind the Rolls-Royce brand.

The movie highlights the lives of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce who founded the famous brand in 1906, in addition to Lord John Douglas-Scott Montagu, a British member of parliament who campaigned on behalf of motorists.

It was written by Keira Knightley’s mother, Sharman Macdonald, and is due for a 2013 release.

Director Martin Scorsese at the Odeon Leicester Square cinema in London