Spielberg & DiCaprio Want to Reunite For Ulysses S. Grant Biopic

Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio are in early lecture to work together again on a Ulysses S. Grant movie biopic . The director and actor antecedently join forces on 2002’sCatch Me If you’re able to , a memoir star DiCaprio as real life story con creative person extraordinaire Frank Abagnale , Jr. In the sixteen years since then , Spielberg has remained fabulously combat-ready as both a theatre director and manufacturer . DiCpario , meanwhile , has proceed to work with the pick of the harvest in damage of filmmakers and finally won an Oscar for his acting on 2015’sThe Revenant .

After adopt some clock time off , DiCaprio is getting back to playing and will begin burgeon forth Quentin Tarantino ’s 1969 - hardening dramaOnce Upon Time in Hollywoodlater this year . Spielberg only just releasedReady Player Oneback in March , but he ’s already pitch up to filmhis fifthIndiana Jonesmovieand theWest Side Storyremake ( essentially ) back - to - back next class . Nothing is set in Edward Durell Stone just yet , but it sounds like Spielberg is now hot on mastermind DiCpario in the Grant biopic as shortly as their schedules open up again .

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According toDeadline ’s sources , the Ulysses S. Grant biopic is now a " priority " for both Spielberg and DiCaprio . The project is base on the Ron Chernow biographyGrant , which DiCaprio ’s Appian Way acquire the motion picture rights to last November . David James Kelly , who cowrote this fall’sRobin Hood , is working on the conform script , with the intention being that DiCaprio will asterisk with Spielberg calling the shots .

Spielberg has been a buff of historical play throughout his career as a film director , but over the past decade they ’ve become a priority for him . He ’s publish three over the preceding six twelvemonth alone , include aLincolnmemoir that divvy up with many of the same topics as a Ulysses S. Grant biopic would . Jared Harris even play Grant inLincoln , so the Civil War superior general and infamously scandal - ride 18th U.S. chairman is clearly a figure of interest to Spielberg . He ’s also the sort of complicated individual that should offer a substantive role for someone like DiCaprio to dip his tooth into ( not to mention , arise another frizzly beard for ) .

It seem as though the real obstruction that could preventGrantfrom happening are Spielberg and DiCaprio ’s corporate to - do lean . Spielberg is also actively formulate DC ’s WWII - setBlackhawkmovie and may terminate up directing it after he wrapsWest Side Story . likewise , DiCaprio is loosely tie to asterisk in biopics aboutLeonardo Da VinciandTeddy Roosevelt , and may yet unite once more with Martin Scorsese on the genuine news report free-base historical crime drama , Killers of the Flower Moon . All the same , Spielberg and DiCaprio did heavy work together onCatch Me If You Canand a Ulysses S. Grant biopic by the duo could prove to be something every bit special .

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