SEUSS’ OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO! TO BECOME ANIMATED FEATURE Before Jim Jones, DiCaprio can be seen in Netflix’s Don’t Look Up () and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon ().ġ. Jim Jones does not yet have a director, but it does have a screenwriter in Scott Rosenberg, whose recent films include the two recent Jumanji movies and the Marvel Comics adaptation Venom. Leonardo DiCaprio will also produce Jim Jones through his Appian Way production company. James Warren Jones organized his followers as a settlement called Jonestown in Guyana in South America, where he eventually orchestrated the mass suicide of over 900 followers (and the murders of others). Coincidentally, DiCaprio’s newest project is also about a real life cult leader responsible for several deaths, as he is in final negotiations with MGM to star in the 1970s-set historical drama Jim Jones. Although that film was primarily about the friendship between a cowboy TV star and his stuntman best friend (Brad Pitt), the cult led by Charles Manson also figured heavily in the film’s B plot (and final sequences). The last time we saw Leonardo DiCaprio in a theatrically released feature film was in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Certified Fresh at 85%). (Photo by Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection) This WEEK’S TOP STORY LEONARDO DICAPRIO TO PORTRAY CULT LEADER JIM JONES IN NEW BIOPIC
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