Posted on 11/13/2021 4:41:28 PM PST by Drew68
Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio is in final talks to play religious cult leader Jim Jones in MGM’s upcoming feature written by Scott Rosenberg, Variety has confirmed.
Known as the leader of the Peoples Temple religious group, Jones was behind the November 1978 mass suicide at his Jonestown settlement that took more than 900 lives. Jones and his inner circle orchestrated the massacre at the jungle commune in Guyana, with the followers directed to drink cyanide-adulterated punch.
MGM secured a deal for the feature project in a preemptive situation, with DiCaprio also producing the project alongside Jennifer Davisson for their Appian Way production company. Rosenberg (“Venom,” “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” and “Jumanji: The Next Level”) is also on board as an executive producer. Rosenberg is represented by WME.
ounded in 2001 by DiCaprio, Appian Way Productions produced Alejandro Iñárritu’s three-time Academy Award-winner “The Revenant,” Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-nominated “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the Academy Award-nominated “The Aviator” and “Shutter Island” (all starring DiCaprio), as well as the Peabody Award-winning documentary “Sea of Shadows,” Scott Cooper’s “Out of the Furnace” and George Clooney’s “The Ides of March,” among others. Appian currently is in production on Apple’s “Shining Girls,” starring Elizabeth Moss. Davisson serves as president of production.
DiCaprio next stars opposite Jennifer Lawrence in Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” for Netflix and in Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” for Apple Originals Films. Over the course of his prolific career, the actor has played a host of historical figures, including infamous con man Frank Abagnale in “Catch Me If You Can,” Howard Hughes in “The Aviator” and frontiersman Hugh Glass in “The Revenant,” for which he earned the best actor Oscar in 2016 (he’s been nominated a total of seven times). DiCaprio is repped by LBI Entertainment and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman.
Deadline was first to report news of DiCaprio’s involvement in the project.
Ouch!
Liberal commies have been drinking the kool-aid for a couple of decades already.
Guess who gets blame?
I mean, the white guy is guilty, but they won’t blame blacks for stupidity.
I still like the Heaven’s Gate cult better.
You need an Adidas jumpsuit, cut off your balls, and a spaceship will beam you up.
Amazing, people were like yeah!
Wasn’t there like 300+ plus drinking the Kool-Aid plus a gunned down Congressman?
900+
I remember the SNL skit where they showed them on the spaceship during “Nightline”....
Ted Koppel: Uh-huh.. alright. So, this whole killing yourself thing has really turned out to be a home run for you. Tell me, are there any regrets?
Marshall Applewhite: Yeahhh.. the castration thing.. I was way off on that one, Ted! It turns out it had nothing to do with anything. In fact, when we got here, everyone just looked at me like, “Applewhite, you nutball!”
No offense but who really cares?
Newsweek had a recent writeup was surprised they pointed out the socialist angle and the connection to Milk.
And they had to remember to have their luggage packed.
I know it’s not really funny, but if a dude was like let’s cut our balls off, I’m pretty sure our friendship is over.
I just remember that dude’s eyes. Bat guano crazy.
Unrelated, same eyes on that girl from Parks and Rec. I bet she’s crazy...
Well, comet aliens can’t beam unpacked luggage.
Everybody knows that.
I always felt the fact that 900 and more people who drank cynics laced kool-aid and then fell forward, everyone of them, seemed against the odds that would happen that way. I’ve always thought that some of them were turned face down by the first people there to investigate, knowing the photos would be taken and that it would be too horrible to see their faces and also the privacy issue.
Whenever I mention this to anyone I always get a negative reaction but does that not seem a reasonable assumption?
You know why jokes about Jonestown were never popular? The punch line was always too long.
I was just going to say. Powers Booths role was the best in that movie.
I wouldn’t waste my time watching it if they paid me to do so, regardless of the amount they offered me.
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