DiCaprio Joins CIA
Leonardo DiCaprio adds Ridley Scott to the list of top directors who want to work with him.Spielberg has worked with Leonardo DiCaprio, and Martin Scorsese has done so twice. Now Ridley Scott wants him. Daily Variety reports DiCaprio is in talks to star in Body of Lies for Warner Bros., a film adaptation of David Ignatius’ new novel. Oscar winning screenwriter William Monahan, this year’s Adapted Screenplay winner for The Departed, is adapting the novel.
All the details haven’t been worked out, but DiCaprio looks like a lock; he’s already reportedly put the project on his busy schedule. He’s set to shoot the film this fall after he wraps Revolutionary Road, the drama that will reunite him with Kate Winslet, his co star from Titanic.
In Body of Lies, DiCaprio will play an ex journalist turned CIA agent investigating a possible Al Qaeda leader planning a new attack on the US. Ridley Scott is already in Morocco, scouting locations that will stand in for Amman, Jordan. Other locations will include Washington DC and sites in Europe and elsewhere in the Middle East. 