After starring in The Revenant and picking up an Academy Award for it, Leonardo DiCaprio, 41, is mostly making news over climate change issues like promoting his new documentary, Before the Floods or spearheading “a big screen reboot” of the famous environment-friendly cartoon, Captain Planet. Beyond that and the many climate change related productions he’s involved with, the acclaimed actor has finally settled on a new project.
After starring in The Revenant and picking up an Academy Award for it, Leonardo DiCaprio, 41, is mostly making news over climate change issues like promoting his new documentary, Before the Floods or spearheading “a big screen reboot” of the famous environment-friendly cartoon, Captain Planet. Beyond that and the many climate change related productions he’s involved with, the acclaimed actor has finally settled on a new project.
The untitled film, a biopic, will be about Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, the music pioneer who worked with/launched Elvis Presley, Howlin’ Wolf, Johnny Cash & Jerry Lee Lewis.
DiCaprio will star in and produce the film while Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger is also attached to the project as producer. The script and screenplay will be based on the book Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘N’ Roll by Peter Guralnick.
This biopic, however, won’t be the first post-Oscar release for DiCaprio though who is still hoping that his long overdue film, The Devil in the White City, which is directed by Martin Scorsese releases first.
According to Variety, he’s also shown keen interest in starring in the adaptation of the book Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South. Other reports suggest that the actor is still looking for that elusive project that will make up his first post-Oscar release.
