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EXCLUSIVE: Now that New Regency closed a deal to fully fund the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed The Revenant, the Biutiful helmer has set his sights on Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn to play the two leads in the screen adaptation of the Michael Punke novel. I’m told they’ve met with Inarritu, but that if this cast materializes it would mean starting next fall. In the Mark L. Smith-scripted drama, DiCaprio is being courted to play 1820s frontiersman Hugh Glass, who hires on to a fur trapping expedition and is so badly mauled by a bear that he’s unable to be transported back from the wilderness. He hires two men to stay behind. Expecting him to die, they rob and abandon him instead, leaving him helpless. When he recovers, he is hellbent on revenge. Inarritu wants Penn to play one of the men who left him for dead. 20th Century Fox will distribute. DiCaprio next stars in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, and Penn is shooting Gangster Squad.
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SOOO….tired of DiCaprio…he’s everywhere and nowhere. it seems like now he’d take any project that met his quote and put money in his pocket. We’re over him and have been….,and Penn? no one has cared for awhile. just go do your political rants believing anyone is actually listening.
Second that.
You’re both (ni)twits. Have you seen Leo in a series of rom-coms lately? No? Well, then he’s not taking any project that meets his quote. And, may I be so bold as to ask how many days you each spent in Haiti since the earthquake there? And how many individuals you picked up in a boat you rented in New Orleans after the hurricane there? You’re welcome to disagree with his politics, but you should feel ashamed for your misguided sense of superiority. My guess is that neither of you have ever created anything worthwhile in your lives.
Inception was the last Dicaprio film out. That was last year. He averages about 1 or 2 movies a year. He is hardly everywhere, he just has his hands in a lot of pies. Next time, try to sound like you know what you’re speaking about.
What planet are you smoking? You claim that he’d choose any project that meets his salary demands and that “we’re over him and have been.” Whatever, dude. He’s very picky about his projects, and his box office appeal is holding up just fine.
You’re an idiot. You think the Hoover movie met his quote? You think this movie is going to meet it? You can be over him, that’s fine. But don’t say ‘we’. I defy you to name a better actor working today…
I don’t have a dog in the “over/under exposed” fight but with regards to a better actor working today… There’s Michael Fassbender, for starters.
Penn is an extraordinarily talented actor. Leo is..n’t.
I agree. I also know that I and many many others will never pay to see Sean Penn at a theater again. We are done with his socialist agenda and will no longer fund him.
You agree that Penn’s extraordinarily talented, but you won’t pay to see his films?! Does it hurt your brain to be Republican? I know it hurts mine.
You two are the biggest dopes on this forum.
Clearly neither one of you has seen What’s Eating Gilbert Grape or Blood Diamond or Mystic River or Dead Man Walking…
Pure dumbasses, I swear.
Agree, Leo couldn`t have pulled off Dead Man Walking
DiCaprio makes one movie a year, sometimes two. I’d actually consider him one of the least over-exposed stars. His last two movies were significant hits, so I assume “We’re over him” is using the royal “we”?
I’m not a serious Leo fan but he’s not “everywhere”. Jennifer Aniston is everywhere. Ben Stiller is everywhere. Adam Sandler is everywhere. I don’t know where your everywhere is but it ain’t where mine is.
And as for Sean Penn goes he’s always good regardless of your inane thoughts about him and his political endeavors. At least he puts his money where his mouth is. You gotta respect the man.
At any rate, this sounds like a good revenge flick to me. Much more like Clint Eastwood than Steven Seagal. If Inarritu is half the western director Sergio Leone was than this will be great.
Dicaprio isn’t everywhere. I’m not thrilled by him but I don’t think of him as running toward every dollar that’s offered to him.
I still like seeing Sean Penn around…
How can you be sick of Dicaprio, he makes 1 movie a year and it’s always awsome…go watch your faggy Taylor Lautner in a gay Twilight movie you turd.
watch your mouth, douche bag.
Sounds like a bad Steven Seagal movie…
Is there a good Steven Seagal movie?
HARD TO KILL – and you can take that to the bank… The Blood Bank.
Above The Law is pretty good.
A bit like the ‘Man in the Wilderness’ movie in away.
Quite a bit, I’d say, based on the synopsis…
It’s the same story. Man in the Wilderness just changed the character’s name. Hugh Glass was a real person.
This movie sounds like it’s going straight to the Oscars. An action packed movie of this level AND with this director? No doubt with performances to remember. Plus I haven’t seen a movie in this time period ever or these two actors on screen together. Inarritu will make it raw and emotionally resonant, much more than the average blockbuster.
Leo is the best..give him all the roles.
One of the best scripts in town – you’d think that they might mention the writer, Mark Smith, who crushed this. It’s more Unforgiven than anything else.
That’s good to know. If the script is kick butt, and with Inarritu at the helm, it sounds like some seriously good moviemaking coming up. Inarritu is of the few directors out there taking on bold, audacious themes. I’m sure this is more than the elevator pitch log line.
Secondly, it’s a good thing that actors like Penn (Milk, Tree Of Life, etc) and DiCaprio (J. Edgar, Revolutionary Road, etc) sign on for “tough sell’ projects, or we’d just go numb with nonsense.
NR is back!
for free or for money I wouldn’t sit and watch Sean Penn for 90+ minutes. He’s a self righteous arrogant Hugo Chavez loving has been loud mouth. Stay in Haiti Sean Penn and not the ritzy area. Sleeze ball
Leo took a 90% pay cut to film J Edgar…budget said to have been $35M.
Maybe “thinkaboutit” has a tape worm?
“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we’.” – Mark Twain
How is dicaprio not a good actor? I think he is the best actor today that is considered a movoe star. Yeah sure there us guys like will smith who constantly picks films that are a guaranteed box office hits. Like pasaing on django unchained, what actor in his right mind would pass on a lead in a tarantino movie? Leo is constantly trying to further himself in films and become a better actor. If anybody that appreciates uality acting must realize that leo is the best with great performances in Aviator, Blood Diamond, Departed, and my personal favorites Whats Eating Gilbert Grape and Revolutionary Road. He is in my opinion an reincarnation of Paul newman and will have an stellar resume and continue to become one of the greatest actors to live, because he wants to be an ” actor” not a movie star. How can you deny that every great filmmaler in the world like scorsese, spielberg, eastwood, scott, nolan, zwick and lastly tarantino all want to work with him, because he is the best actor in hollywood today. I am obviously a big admirer of him but i always did find one thing with him always working with “great” directors. But he will Is npw signed on to worm with todd field and innaritu and i can almost guarantee that these movies will be a hit. And penn and dicaprio working together with an arthouse director, for an aspiring actor it cant get much better.
Considering the Glass character is an African American, I think someone’s facts are pretty wrong here.
Strange that DiCaprio would be in two westerns about vengeful African American cowboys back to back.
Uhhh… pretty sure you’re wrong. Also, the description of the plot is a bit off as well. If it goes by the book, Glass doesn’t hire the men to take him back, the expedition leader (Henry) has two men (Fitzgerald and Bridger) stay back as the rest forge on.
Will be interesting to see how disfigured they can go with Leo’s appearance as should get pretty gruesome. Penn should be a good Fitzgerald.
leonardo dicaprio greatest actor in cinema nowwwwwwww
The script is unbelievably good… Mark L. Smith did a fantastic job.
I go see movies to be entertained. I don’t care about Penn’s political views and even if i did that doesn’t translate into whether or not I go see his movies.
I could never understand why people cannot segregate the personal lives and their acting apart. What’s next. I won’t see a Leo movie because he eats a cereal I don’t like?