Earlier this year, it was reported that Martin Scorsese was cooking up a Hawaiian crime drama with Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, and Emily Blunt. So where does that leave the Hawaiian crime drama? ” Likely, the project wasn’t ready to go quite yet, which left Scorsese free to move on to What Happens at Night. The description in the original report reads:Imagine Robert De Niro’s Jimmy the Gent character from Goodfellas, but as a ruthless Hawaiian crime boss, based on a real figure, who battled encroaching rivals for control of organized crime in Hawaii. The film focuses on a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest control of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands.