Proving once more (if further proof was required) that he's one of the most solid and bankable actors of the day, Leonardo DiCaprio is getting ready for another major drama / thriller film, based on a book on the conspiracy around the assassination of JFK.
While preparing for Clint Eastwood's “Hoover,” in which he plays the lead, the controversial FBI director, DiCaprio has also found some time to secure the rights to “Legacy of Secrecy,” which he will turn into a film that he stars in and produces, E! Online has learned.
The actor's production company, Appian Ways, has secured the rights to the book that argues that the Mafia was behind President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination, with DiCaprio playing an FBI informant determined to get to the bottom of it – and prove it.
“The actor's idea to adapt the tome, whose full title is Legacy of Secrey: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, came from his father, George, who introduced it to him years ago,” E! reports.
“DiCaprio will play FBI informant Jack Van Laningham who, according to recently declassified FBI files, took part in a dangerous undercover operation to infiltrate the mafia organization of crime boss Carlos Marcello, who was active in Texas and Louisiana during the 1960s,” says the same e-zine.
“In his role as an informant, Van Laningham alleged Marcello confessed to him that he was behind Kennedy's murder and that he even had a hand in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Watergate scandal,” the same report notes.
Since the deal for the rights has been sealed, and on condition that everything goes according to plan, the film should arrive in theaters sometime in 2013 – just in time for the 50th anniversary since the President's death, E! points out.
In the meantime, with the Oscars coming up early in 2011 and DiCaprio (supposedly) in the run with both his releases of 2010, “Shutter Island” and “Inception,” bookies are casting odds on whether he'll finally win one such statuette.
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