Posted on 06/17/2010 1:50:10 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
"He going to spread his wings," one of my studio sources tells me now that Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play J Edgar Hoover in the still untitled biopic. Already getting early Oscar buzz for Chris Nolan's Inception, Leo will be directed in the epic FBI drama by Clint Eastwood who's producing with Brian Grazer and Rob Lorenz through Imagine and Malpaso. Scripted by Dustin Lance Black, production begins later this year. The project began at Universal, where Imagine is based, but came together at Warners, where Eastwood's Malpaso has long called home. Imagine had been developing the Dustin Lance Black script for over a year before showing it to Universal, where the reaction was negative. But then Grazer got the screenplay to pal Clint (they did The Changeling and have had a personal relationship ever since), the two men met about it in mid-February, and the film has been on the fast track at Warner Bros, where this will be DiCaprio's first film with Eastwood. Great that DiCaprio is getting out of his Marty Scorsese rut.
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Leo is allegedly gay and has an extreme left wing ideology.
Dustin Black is gay ex-Mormon with compromising pix of himself all over the internet. X-rated gay pix.
Eastwood injected pc-ness into Iwo Jima, and other things. He’s definitely not a righty and hasn’t been in ages. He’s a moderate Dem if anything, at times extremely liberal.
And Leo can’t act.
I don’t expect this to be good, I expect it to be HORRIBLE.
Ever see ‘The Aviator’? or ‘This Boy’s Life’? LD is one of the best American actors of his generation.
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