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“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, which 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. This will be DiCaprio’s first film with Eastwood. Great that DiCaprio is getting out of his Marty Scorsese rut.
Leonardo DiCaprio Set For J Edgar Hoover Role In Biopic For Eastwood And Grazer
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Pretty sure the rut comment was a joke?
Don’t the dummies in Hollywood know from casting these days?
Bob Hoskins as Hoover, Leo as Clyde Tolson!
Leo really wants that Oscar
“Great that DiCaprio is getting out of his Marty Scorsese rut”??????????????????????????????????????? WTF!!!!!!!! you joking right?! I think Carnahan’s onto something here
Leo should do Hamlet. DiCaprio likes playing older, but he can make an exception for Shakespeare. He was an awesome Romeo, as great as anybody ever, and it’s time to get back to the bard.
Looking forward to this, but I have NO idea how they’re going to achieve a resemblance to Hoover.
I like the fact that mr. DiCaprio is acutally seeking other directors. Finally, we get to see this man’s talent. He was good in Revolutionary road, haha .
he is actually a good actor. Hmmm.. He is one of the best today. I still need to watch the Departed, I heard it was an extrememly good movie. I love the fact that he decided to work with Mr. Nolan.. for Inception, this makes me happy, thus, definelty putting my money out there to see this film. He is working with Clint Eastwood.. Haha, pretty swwett 
Are you kidding? Scorsese rut? They’ve made some of the only decent films of the past decade. Please.
“Scorsese rutt”?!? That better be a joke…
Gangs Of New York, The Aviator, The Departed and Shutter Island were all brilliant films.
And you act like he’s done nothing with anybody else in between. What about Blood Diamond, Body Of Lies (which was crap), Revolutionary Road and now Inception?
“Scorsese rut” – what an ignorant statement.
P.S. If you were joking…good one;)
Leo has done stellar with or without Scorsese. He got Oscar nods for “The Aviator” and “Blood Diamond”, a Golden Globe nod for “Revolutionary Road”, “Shutter Island” proves he can still carry a film to box office glory,and if “Inception” really does live up to hype, I’d imagine many people will be looking at Leo in the same respected light after they saw “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”. And “The Aviator” showed how well he can bury himself into that same kind of character and time period as Hoover. He’s been an underrated “ACTOR” for so long and he gets a new chance to prove himself with every new project and he almost always comes out on top. And have all of pretty much forgotten about Spielberg’s “Catch Me If You Can”? Come on!
I loved the Scorsese films… especially The Departed and Shutter Island. The Aviator was excellent as well. Gangs of New York was kind of lame, but it wasn’t Leo’s fault. Inception will likely be amazing, Blood Diamond was pretty good, and Body of Lies was watchable. Throw on top of that his best movie yet, Catch Me If You Can with Tom Hanks, and it’s obvious the man can act. Now he’s going to team up with Eastwood and deliver another Oscar-worthy performance.
Not that the Broderick Crawford version wasn’t faboo and over the top, but it’s time for a fresh look at JEH. I don’t know if Leo is the one to do it though. He did great in The Aviator but I just don’t know if this will work out. If we want to talk about someone spreading his wings…let’s see Jack Black in this role. (Leo is going to have to eat an entire Baskin Robbins every day to get his body to JEH proportions, whereas Jack is pretty much already there.)
Too many of these posts are sounding like
they were scripted from the studio’s PR office.
Sad if true. Sadder STILL if not.
FACT IS –DiCaprio, photogenic aspect aside,
has all the depth of a birdbath
BUT even worse is one note macho ‘icon’ Eastwood’s
string of pointless, by-the-book PC snuff films
and uninspired cultural incest.
MORE DISTURBING STILL has been, not only his abject failure
to take ANY stand whatsoever on the matter of Hollywood’s
decades long franchise slum sellout to history’s –MOST–
awesomely genocidal regime -bar none! —ACROSS the Pacific
-BUT his flagrant baulking of the staggeringly important,
urgently relevant 60th Anniversary of the KOREAN WAR –this year.
FURTHER it seems Eastwood is himself a Korea era draftee
—who managed not to see Korea.
Very disturbing —indeed.
For what it’s worth, the WB/Hoover connection goes back more than 50 years. In 1959, Hoover was a consultant to Warner Brothers on “The F.B.I. Story” (starring Jimmy Stewart, and produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy, twenty years after his work on “The Wizard of Oz”). In addition, from 1965 until his death in 1972, Hoover personally made sure that WB Television portrayed the F.B.I. more favorably than other crime dramas of the times when they moved forward with their TV series “The F.B.I.” (starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr.).
On a separate note, while I am not a Leo fan by any means, I think “The Aviator” is a tremendous film — despite the fact that Leo is in it. And, I thought Imagine’s “Frost/Nixon” was very well done — even though I could not imagine how Frank Langella was cast to play Nixon.
So, while Leo is not an obvious choice to play Hoover (and would certainly not be my choice), I have every confidence that the team of Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer and Dustin Lance Black (“Milk”; “Pedro”; “Big Love”) will deliver an interesting film and a fresh look at Hoover.
These comments are funny and contradictory. The Aviator a good movie despite the fact DiCaprio was in it???? He practically was in every damn scene. So how can it be good despite the fact he was in it? The guy just gets no respect from some quarters no matter what he does. Nice to see he’s getting an amazing paycheck for Inception, though? Clearly one of the luckiest actors in Hollywood, in spite of his “lack of talent”? NOT!!!
Doesn’t the fact that Leo is an obvious choice to play Hoover tell you that there just might be something to this role, Eastwood usually doesn’t cast actors unless he knows the actor or actress can make it fly. This is something i would invest my money in watching.
Doesn’t the fact that Leo isn’t an “obvious” choice to play Hoover tell you that there just might be something to this role, Eastwood usually doesn’t cast actors unless he knows the actor or actress can make it fly. This is something i would invest my money in watching. my mad forgot a tiny part just added on to my last statement he he. laterz….
Leo isn’t the “obvious” choice to play Hoover. However, given that, I’m willing to see what happens here. Eastwood has done splendid work in the past along with some not so great work, but that happens to the best. I think makeup including padding and camera tricks to make him look shorter could work here. But can Leo sound like Hoover? I think he can, knowing that he is a superb mimic and there is plenty of Hoover footage out there. Leo had much less to work with where Howard Hughes, a notably unwilling subject, was concerned but still managed to sketch a reasonable portrayal out of what he had.
I wouldn’t say that Leo was in a “rut” with Scorsese, they collaborate very well