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Leonardo DiCaprio will play creative person and discoverer Leonardo da Vinci in a upcoming biopic for Paramount . DiCaprio has been portraying veridical hoi polloi in moving-picture show for much of his storied life history . His third flick persona was as a young Tobias Wolff inThis Boy ’s Life . Just two class afterward he played author , poet , and musician Jim Carroll inThe basketball game Diaries , and queer poet Arthur Rimbaud inTotal Eclipse . From con man Frank Abagnale Jr. to billionaire Howard Hughes to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to criminal Jordan Belfort to his Oscar win role inThe Revenantas frontiersman Hugh Glass – DiCaprio has clip and again brought genuine multitude from the past and present to life in film .
Through the years , there has been one real - life historical figure that DiCaprio has particularly desire to act . creative person and inventor Leonardo da Vinci . According to DiCaprio ’s mother , she was looking at a painting of da Vinci ’s while fraught with the next Oscar success , and felt the infant kick so hard that she diagnose her son after the painter whose work she was admire .
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And now DiCaprio will play his namesake in a biopic motion-picture show ground on a shortly - to - be - resign life by Walker Isaacson , according toVariety . Paramount and Universal engross in a summons warfare over the holding which Paramount has won – to the tune of seven digit .
Isaacson has also write other biographies which have been adapt to moving-picture show and goggle box , admit the 2015 Michael Fassbender movieSteve Jobsand the first season ofGeniuswhere Geoffrey Rush played Albert Einstein . His Christian Bible about da Vinci will be released on October 17 , 2017 .
Da Vinci – who was support in 1452 and go bad in 1519 – is best known for painting theMona LisaandThe Last Supper , but he was also a skilled inventor . Some even credit him with first coming up with the concept for the helicopter . But that was only the tip of the iceberg ; he was also a genius at math , writing , flora , scientific discipline , medicine , history , mapmaking , and numerous other discipline . Many call him the father of computer architecture , ichnology , and fossilology . Da Vinci is considered by many to be one of the most multi - talented people to have ever lived .
DiCaprio will produce the picture – as well as star in it – under the Appian Way standard and with chair of production Jennifer Davisson . With the dictation war now ended , employment can start out on the plastic film . Though considering the book it is ground on is not even put out yet , it will most probably be a few yr before DiCaprio ’s performance as his namesake finally gets made and released .
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