Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio are uniting.
The former will produce and direct, while the latter will star in, the big screen adaption of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
Farhad Safinia, who wrote Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, will begin work on the script in the near future. Huxley’s 1991 novel is set in a 26th-century world, one with a caste system.
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According to Variety, Leonardo DiCaprio is moving ahead with a movie based on The Twilight Zone, as Rand Ravich has been hired to write a script based on the iconic TV series, which combined fantasy, science-fiction and horror.
Ravich's feature credits include directing The Astronaut's Wife and executive producing Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
The original Twilight Zone show ran for five seasons, starting in 1959, on CBS.
Leonardo DiCaprio is now set to produce and star in an untitled film about the world of online casinos based out of Costa Rica.
The unusual project comes from screen writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Rounders, The Girlfriend Experience and Ocean's Thirteen).
DiCaprio will next appear in the Martin Scorsese film, Shutter Island.
Leonardo DiCaprio has lined up his next project. The actor will play a former hit-man in Beat the Reaper.
According to Variety, DiCaprio will star as a contract killer who enters the witness protection program; once there, he becomes a doctor.
The character is drawn in to his former world, though, when a mobster recognizes the medic from his former life.
DiCaprio's current movie pits him alongside Kate Winlset in Revolutionary Road.
Titanic fans are rejoicing: Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are reuniting for Revolutionary Road.
The pair of stars grace this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly. Here are excerpts from the interview they gave to the magazine:
How scared were you to mess with that original magic?
Leonardo DiCaprio: Over the years, I would find myself stopping and saying, ''I don't know if we should do this again.'' And then I'd think, ''What are you, an idiot? Why wouldn't I want to work with the best actress of her generation? Am I going to be prejudiced against a project just because Kate's in it?'' I think we both had been actively looking for something else to do together, but we fundamentally knew that we couldn't tread on any sort of similar territory.
There are countless examples of how sudden fame can permanently destroy a young person in Hollywood, and yet somehow the two of you emerged intact.
Kate Winslet: I look back on that time now and I remember thinking, ''I'm doing okay, I'm absolutely fine. My life hasn't changed. I won't let it! I can just walk to the grocery store and buy milk in my pajamas still. Ahhhh, right, no, I can't. I have no idea what the hell is going on or how I'm supposed to deal with suddenly having 10 paparazzi there. Oh, okay, ohhhh, I get it. Anonymity, that's gone.'' I look back and think, ''Jesus, I was seriously ill-equipped emotionally to be able to cope with all of that stuff.''
On October 10, Russell Crowe and Leonardi DiCaprio team up for Body of Lies.
The A-list stars recently sat with MoviesOnline to discuss the thriller. Here are highlights from the interview:
MoviesOnline: A lot of your scenes in this film are you and your cell phone essentially, was that like doing a voice on a cartoon?
Russell Crowe: I don't know. I've never done a voice on a cartoon. It's the same as if you're doing a CGI film and you're supposed to be floating in a flock of black ravens. In fact, most of the time when you're on a film set, what you see in the audience has nothing to do with the experience of the actor. So you've always got to be shutting off things that are going to affect your focus and all that sort of stuff. So it's the same sort of thing where you just zero in on the phone call.
Some guys try to attempt to do that thing of having both people on the phone at the same time which is just utterly a waste of time. It's a waste of time. It's better off that you just do the groove by yourself. And then if you shot it first, the next person gets to hear where you were and they will fold into that, or if you're doing it second, it's the same thing. You listen to what they said and then you have a think about it.
MoviesOnline: Were there any stunts that were particularly challenging or painful? Also, you had to learn some Arabic, are you able to remember any of that?
Leonardo DiCaprio: Absolutely none, I can't remember a single word even to tell you the truth. But we had an Arabic coach there that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent, you have to be so exact and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country, so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat, it's different, and also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.
Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way, are in talks to make a movie version of the popular 60s television show, The Twilight Zone, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Although, The Twilight Zone was made into a big screen movie in 1983, the movie was three seperate episodes into an episodic movie.
However, if DiCaprio gets his way, the new movie will be a single continuous story.
Warner Brothers currently owns rights to the episodes written by Rod Serling, which makes up most of the 1959-1964 episodes.
As previously reported, Matthew McConaughey was in the running to portray Captain America in the upcoming movie based on that Marvel super hero.
Now, new rumors are coming in - courtesy of Latino Review - that float the possibility of Leonardo DiCaprio in the role of this well-known avenger of justice.
Can you picture the Titantic actor as Captain America?
Aside from DiCaprio, Brad Pitt's name has been floated around to fill the iconic role of Captain America.
Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on to star in Atari, a biopic on Nolan Bushnell, the man that actually invented the home video game console.
As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, after building Atari to an international juggernaut, Bushnell was forced out, only to have a second act as the founder of the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza chain. Random, we know.
Aside from Atari, DiCaprio recently wrapped the Ridley Scott CIA thriller House of Lies, due out in October. He's also set to film Shutter Island.
Director Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio are about to make a movie called The Dweller.
The person most excited about this should be AFI grad, Brad Ingelsby. He was previously living with hie parents working at his father's insurance company. According to Variety, Ingelsby got his script sold to Relativity Media for $650,000.
The Low Dweller is about Slim (DiCaprio), a man recently released from prison for murder. His only plan upon released was to marry his girlfriend until he found out his brother was murdered. Now his plan is revenge.
The script is said to be reminiscent of No Country for Old Man. That could explain why the studio was so eager to bid on this first time writer's script.
