Leonardo DiCaprio enters the Twilight Zone
From THR:
Could the eerie music of “The Twilight Zone” soon be playing again at the movies?
Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way are in the early stages of seeking material for a feature take on one or more episodes from the classic TV series.
The studio and production company are quietly putting out word to creators that they are looking for pitches and script ideas based on the show for feature development.
The companies are not seeking to remake an episodic movie, as the only big-screen version of the show did 25 years ago, but rather hope to build one continuing story line based on one or more episodes.
Leonardo DiCaprio to portray the Atari and Chuck E. Cheese Founder
Life is stranger than fiction for Leonardo DiCaprio. It is a familiar trend for Leo, he played Howard Hughes in The Aviator, Frank Abagnale in Catch Me If You Can, and Tobias Wolff in This Boy’s Life. And Leo’s also attached to films in development about Wall Street felon Jordan Belfort and James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Well, portraying real people on screen has continued, as the Oscar-nominated actor-producer has pressed the play button. Leo just become attached to star in “Atari,” a pitch that writers Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman sold to Paramount on Friday about the godfather of the video game industry, Nolan Bushnell. (more…)
DiCaprio goes Green
Every time he comes home, Leonardo DiCaprio is practicing what he preaches. The environmentally conscious actor has bought an apartment in Riverhouse, an eco-friendly building overlooking the Hudson River. The purchase was confirmed on Friday by Christopher Daly, president of Sheldrake Organization, the developer of the Battery Park City complex. Occupancy is slated for this summer.
Via AP
Lucky son of a bitch o the day
Brad Ingelsby began last week as a 27-year-old AFI grad living with his parents in Pennsylvania and working for his father’s insurance business. By Thursday, he’d made a fortune with his very first script, one that may get made quickly with Ridley Scott directing and Leonardo DiCaprio starring. Relativity Media outbid four studios and paid $650,000 against $1.1 million for “The Low Dweller,” a dark drama set in 1986 Indiana. Plan is for DiCaprio to play Slim, a man released after serving years in prison for murder who wants only to follow through on his promise to marry his long-suffering girlfriend. But when he discovers his brother has been murdered after getting involved in a gambling racket, he feels obliged to avenge the murder.
Via Variety
Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio are Dwellers
Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio will reteam for a dark thriller titled “The Low Dwellers” that Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media has bought after a heated bidding war. Set in Indiana in the mid-1980s, the movie centers on a man (DiCaprio) trying to assimilate into society after he’s released from jail, only to find someone from his past pursuing him to settle a score. In addition to the pursuer, a third male character and a female love interest are said to figure prominently in the script.
Via HR
Leo and Marky Mark are on Cocaine?
“Do we really need more coke overdoses in Hollywood? According to Page Six, Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to star opposite Mark Wahlberg in a live-action remake of the quite awesome documentary Cocaine Cowboys. DiCaprio would star as Mickey Munday, a hick-type airplane pilot with an attitude and an insatiable appetite for the drug trade.”
Via Slashfilm
“And the 2009 Oscar for Best Picture goes to… Shutter Island!”
“Shutter Island,” Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Leonardo DiCaprio thriller, has been sold to several major European territories by Paramount Vantage International, chalking up some high figures along the way. “Shutter” is an adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel that follows two U.S. marshals who are sent to a federal institution for the criminally insane located in Boston’s Outer Harbor to capture a violent female escapee. DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Michelle Williams are on board to star in the production, which is due to go before cameras in March. Paramount is releasing the movie domestically.
Via Variety