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Film Discussion => In Front of the Camera => Topic started by: Jack Sparrow on September 07, 2003, 01:21:02 PM

Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Jack Sparrow on September 07, 2003, 01:21:02 PM
what about him? what's his best work to date? how badly does titanic suck?

he's was outstanding in "what's eating gilbert grape" and "the basketball diaries".
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Derek on September 07, 2003, 01:28:46 PM
He is incredibly charismatic, and the projects which exploit that trait like Titanic and Catch Me have, have been his best roles so far.

Titanic does not suck, it is in fact a GREAT movie. I don't understand the hostility towards it. People don't like a winner, I suppose.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Find Your Magali on September 07, 2003, 01:29:56 PM
I think we should all be glad that he did "Titanic." Because, as good of an actor as DiCaprio has been at times, I can't imagine how he would have pulled off Diggler as well as Wahlberg.
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Post by: MacGuffin on September 07, 2003, 01:40:07 PM
Quote from: DerekTitanic does not suck, it is in fact a GREAT movie. I don't understand the hostility towards it. People don't like a winner, I suppose.

I don't understand it either. The last hour is just mesmerizing and so visual; everything before that is filled with humor and colorful characters. Sure the love story is on the corny side, but I felt better chemistry between Jack and Rose than Amsterdam and Jenny. But I think "Romeo And Juliet" was where Leo had the best chemistry opposite his leading lady.

Leo was also great in holding his own against DeNiro in "This Boy's Life".
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: phil marlowe on September 07, 2003, 01:50:10 PM
i like him and thought he was good in titanic but i didn't the movie. i recently chewed me all the way through it again and ohh my god that movie is long. the movie was seemed so dated and toothless that it was a pain to sit through it in three hours. i liked the sinking sequence though.

and that over glamourizing of the poor life...gee it must've been fun being poor in th 1920's.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Find Your Magali on September 07, 2003, 02:00:00 PM
Quote from: phil marlowei like him and thought he was good in titanic but i didn't the movie. i recently chewed me all the way through it again and ohh my god that movie is long. the movie was seemed so dated and toothless that it was a pain to sit through it in three hours. i liked the sinking sequence though.

and that over glamourizing of the poor life...gee it must've been fun being poor in th 1920's.

For me, "Titanic" is one of those few films that just don't work on the small screen. It's meant to be seen large, with great, loud surround sound (the ship creaking as water enters, etc.). On the big screen, the love story seems, literally, larger than life amidst the tragedy and spectacle. On a small screen, the special effects just don't deliver the same punch.

Sure, you can say the same thing about other special FX blockbusters losing luster on the small screen, but I think this is overly true with "Titanic." It would be a good movie to re-release every 10, 15 years.

On TV, I mostly find myself enjoying some of the smaller, well-done supporting roles, such as Victor Garber and Bernard Hill. And even Billy Zane, when the script is handing him a bunch of malarkey to say.
Title: Re: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: ©brad on September 07, 2003, 10:40:21 PM
Quote from: gwaihe's was outstanding in "what's eating gilbert grape" and "the basketball diaries".

yes, the beach too. he was hysterical in woody's celebrity. i think catch me is one of his best though, he nailed it. gangs on the other hand, the only thing that really bugged me w/ him was his ever-fluctuating irish accent- it wasn't working.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Alethia on September 07, 2003, 10:41:40 PM
Quote from: MacGuffin
Leo was also great in holding his own against DeNiro in "This Boy's Life".


oh my god, i used to have the hardest time watching that film.  he was so perfect in it.  his best performance to date.  basketball diaries right behind it.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: budgie on September 08, 2003, 05:28:06 AM
I don't find him charismatic, and I used to think he was really a nothing. Catch Me If You Can has changed my opinion somewhat, but I think he needs the right part (Gangs of New York was not it). I like him in The Quick and the Dead.

I've only ever seen Titanic on tv, and I think it works just fine. I enjoy it, both the effects and the chemistry between the leads (though I wish Hugh Grant had agreed to play the Zane role). It does amazingly to hold the attention for so long with such a slight story.

Leo will do fine as long as he doesn't get too fat.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: jasper_window on September 08, 2003, 08:28:01 AM
Quote from: MacGuffin

Leo was also great in holding his own against DeNiro in "This Boy's Life".

Absolutely.

I think he's remarkably capable actor, and along with this boy's life, gilbert grape, basketball diaries, catch me, even marvin's room, and his quick stint in celebrity, all show his talent.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: oakmanc234 on September 09, 2003, 05:07:23 AM
DiCaprio's a fucking great actor. There's nothing wrong with 'Titanic' (but a film that big/hyped is gonna have a backlash). 'Boy's Life', 'The Beach', 'Catch Me', 'Gangs', all superb performances. I was watching 'Basketball Diaries' the other day and it got me thinking how under-rated he is in it. I think he's achieved quite a lot already.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: cine on September 09, 2003, 03:26:36 PM
-Scorsese's Gangs of NY
-Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can
-Scorsese's The Aviator
-De Niro's The Good Shepherd
-Luhrmann's Alexander The Great

That is one hell of an impressive resume of films in a 3-4 year perod for an actor almost 30 years old. There's no doubt he's a very talented actor and I believe he'll be looked upon as one of the greatest by the time these filmmaking heavyweights are through with him.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Find Your Magali on September 09, 2003, 04:23:19 PM
Quote from: Cinephile-Scorsese's Gangs of NY
-Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can
-Scorsese's The Aviator
-De Niro's The Good Shepherd
-Luhrmann's Alexander The Great

That is one hell of an impressive resume of films in a 3-4 year perod for an actor almost 30 years old. There's no doubt he's a very talented actor and I believe he'll be looked upon as one of the greatest by the time these filmmaking heavyweights are through with him.

Sure, but let's wait and see how those last three turn out. ... I'm sure "Bonfire of the Vanities" looked like a can't-miss project on paper.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: cine on September 10, 2003, 12:08:15 AM
I can see what you mean, but can you blame me for having such high expectations for at least Scorsese and De Niro's films? I know I know.. De Palma.. Bonfires.. I doubt these ones will be flukes but I'll eat my words if they're not (note: I expect Stone's Alexander to be better though).
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Find Your Magali on September 10, 2003, 12:27:17 AM
Quote from: CinephileI can see what you mean, but can you blame me for having such high expectations for at least Scorsese and De Niro's films? I know I know.. De Palma.. Bonfires.. I doubt these ones will be flukes but I'll eat my words if they're not (note: I expect Stone's Alexander to be better though).

Absolutely I don't blame you for having high expectations. That's the fun part of being a movie fan. We can dream and have high expectations for the next Star Wars film or the next Shakespeare adaptation or the next PTA film. ... But, when rating someone's career, we can really only go by what or she has already completed. That's all I'm saying. I like DiCaprio quite a bit, but I think he's still fighting the public perception of his screen persona that was established with Titanic. Maybe he needs to do a few smaller, more daring roles -- maybe even supporting roles -- to get back that buzz and edge he had when he was more of an indie actor.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: meatball on February 23, 2004, 06:15:05 PM
I  agree. He's a good actor. And, he can cry like a motherfucker.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Chest Rockwell on February 24, 2004, 03:56:41 PM
He's a pretty good actor. I hated him for the longest time, though after seeing titanic when I was 8 or something like that. Oh, and his best performance is in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: BonBon85 on February 24, 2004, 05:16:49 PM
Quote from: Chest Rockwellafter seeing titanic when I was 8

For the first time in my life I feel old.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: meatball on February 24, 2004, 07:01:27 PM
Quote from: Chest RockwellHe's a pretty good actor. I hated him for the longest time, though after seeing titanic when I was 8 or something like that. Oh, and his best performance is in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

Ohhh, great. You're younger than I am. I can disrespect you now!  :multi:

I watched Quick and the Dead a little while ago, and although he's a small and simple part -- he's really damn good as the fresh-faced cocky crybaby. Then I watch his more recent films like Catch Me and it seems like he's lost a little bit of that youthful energy that made him so good in the past.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Chest Rockwell on February 25, 2004, 05:08:10 AM
Quote from: meatball
Quote from: Chest RockwellHe's a pretty good actor. I hated him for the longest time, though after seeing titanic when I was 8 or something like that. Oh, and his best performance is in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

Ohhh, great. You're younger than I am. I can disrespect you now!  :multi:
But I have a higher post count.  :-D
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Pubrick on February 25, 2004, 07:08:54 AM
that doesn't mean anything.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: mogwai on February 25, 2004, 09:59:51 AM
aight. i mean, i'm older than p and i'm also taller. even if he has a higher post count, sheit, that doesn't mean sheit. sheit.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: phil marlowe on February 25, 2004, 10:19:24 AM
Quote from: mogwaiaight. i mean, i'm older than p and i'm also taller. even if he has a higher post count, sheit, that doesn't mean sheit. sheit.
you can still kick his ass? sheit.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: mogwai on February 25, 2004, 10:24:50 AM
he's kicked my ass four times. sheit.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Sigur Rós on February 25, 2004, 11:04:06 AM
Quote from: mogwaihe's kicked my ass four times. sheit.

I'll kick P's aussie ass next time I go to Australia! I'm taller and younger than him and I once learned they ancient art of kendo!
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Chest Rockwell on February 25, 2004, 06:03:02 PM
My previous post was a joke, jerks.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: NEON MERCURY on February 25, 2004, 10:19:58 PM
..its not the best film he was in but the basketball diaries was his best performance.....next to gilbert grape...

oh and  i like how he kept the "sling" in style for so many years.... :drinking:
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Pubrick on February 25, 2004, 10:51:13 PM
Quote from: IP FreelyMy previous post was a joke, jerks.
so were the ones that came after.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: MacGuffin on March 30, 2004, 01:01:45 AM
The Good Shepherd Finally Moving Forward
Source: Variety

Variety reports that The Good Shepherd, the long-developed epic about the history of the CIA, will finally get under way this fall.

Written by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), the story follows James Wilson, a Yale graduate recruited as one of the founders of the CIA. The character is said to be based on the legendarily shrewd but paranoid counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton. The story spans Wilson's 40-year career through the Cold War and details the emotional toll it takes on the man and his family.

The film, directed by Robert De Niro and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, finally got a greenlight after Universal Pictures reached a co-financing agreement with Initial Entertainment Group. Universal will handle domestic distribution and Initial will take foreign in the split-rights deal, says the trade.

Production is tentatively slated to start this October, with "Shepherd" scheduled for a late 2005 release.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Kal on March 30, 2004, 01:11:04 AM
wow that looks very cool
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: Ghostboy on March 30, 2004, 01:53:51 AM
Maybe that'll put Infernal Affairs on the back burner, which would allow Scorsese to do something more interesting in the interim.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: ElPandaRoyal on March 30, 2004, 04:55:45 AM
The idea of that remake has kind of grown on me. However, it's great that DeNiro is directing another film. He's learned with the best and his first feature, A Bronx Tale, was quite enjoyable. Looking forward to it.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: MacGuffin on May 13, 2004, 02:13:41 AM
Leonardo DiCaprio Catches Perfect Waves
Source: Variety

According to Variety, Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company has optioned feature rights to All for a Few Perfect Waves, David Rensin's upcoming bio of surfer Miki Dora, with DiCaprio eyeing the central role.

Dora, who was credited with sparking Malibu's surfing subculture during the 1950s and '60s, was also a seductive prankster who had a fickle relationship with his public persona. Frustrated with the exploitation of the surfing lifestyle, he dropped out at the end of the 1960s. In the early 1980s, he was arrested for check fraud and spent time in French and American jails.

High Fidelity screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis will adapt the oral biography. The book will be published by William Morrow in 2006.
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Post by: Myxo on January 31, 2005, 10:20:49 PM
The guy is 30! For fuck's sake..

DiCaprio Gets Lifetime Achievement Award

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - On the heels of an Oscar nomination, "The Aviator" star Leonardo DiCaprio (news) wrapped a high-flying week by accepting the Platinum Award from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
The award, created to commemorate the festival's 20th anniversary, was given Sunday night in recognition of the actor's "exceptional career," festival director Roger Durling said.

DiCaprio's arrival elicited screams from hundreds of fans — a festival first, Durling said. Being greeted in such a way "is kind of like an out-of-body experience," DiCaprio, who plays Howard Hughes in the movie, told Associated Press Television News.

"It's a lifetime achievement award, which is completely and utterly surreal, given I'm only 30 years old," he continued, with a laugh. "But, you know, what has it been? Almost 17 years now. I've done quite a few films. But what's really exciting, for me, is that this is what I really love doing. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life."

(Yeah, the next 30 fucking years! Lifetime achievement??)

The award was presented by Martin Scorsese, who directed DiCaprio in the Hughes biopic, 2002's "Gangs of New York" and the upcoming crime drama "The Departed," also starring Matt Damon (news).

"We've had some good luck together," Scorsese said. "There's an understanding between us, I think, even though I'm 32 years older. We seem to have a similar kind of interest in subject matter, detail, emotional and psychological impact."

Jane Russell, who starred in Hughes' 1943 film, "The Outlaw," said she was impressed by DiCaprio's quest for authenticity.

DiCaprio spent a full day with Russell, now 83, before filming started.

"It's too bad most of the books on Howard ... the person has never met him, didn't know him at all, and is just copying a lot of the other books," Russell said. "So, I was very happy that (DiCaprio) came and cared to come up and find out what (Hughes) was really like. I told him that Howard was very polite and quiet. He was stubborn, he wanted his own way, but it was always nice."

Once inside the auditorium, DiCaprio sat down for a two-hour career retrospective.

(Buahahaha! :lol: ^)

His screen credits include "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993), "This Boy's Life" (1993), "Titanic" (1997) and "Catch Me If You Can" (2002).
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Post by: MacGuffin on May 23, 2005, 01:40:32 AM
Par booking 'Chancellor' for DiCaprio
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Paramount Pictures is in final negotiations to pre-emptively acquire Robert Ludlum's political thriller "The Chancellor Manuscript" as a star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio.

Michael Seitzman will write the adaptation, which will be produced by Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher's Red Wagon Entertainment, DiCaprio's Appian Way and the Ludlum estate.

The novel was published in 1977, though the big-screen version will be updated. DiCaprio will play novelist Peter Chancellor, who is writing a thriller about Washington power brokers being blackmailed with information gathered by intelligence agencies in order to alter U.S. policy. When Chancellor's work of fiction turns out to have stumbled into reality, he ends up on a run for his life, becoming like a character from his own novel.

"Michael Seitzman's reinvention of this story captures all the twists and paranoia that was part of the Ludlum genius but also takes on the contemporary relevance of the material," Paramount Pictures president Gail Berman said.
 
Seitzman, who penned the untitled Niki Caro project starring Charlize Theron, had been in love with the book since reading it when he was 10. He pitched his updated take to the studio, which then pre-emptively started to buy the rights.

"We live in this crazy post-Patriot Act environment where Benjamin Franklin's warning that those that give up essential liberties for temporary security don't deserve either one are being ignored, so the subject matter seemed ripe," Seitzman said in an interview.

Of DiCaprio, he added: "This is not pap, but there really is no one better for this than Leo. The author is supposed to be an author, not an action hero. You're supposed to buy him as a gifted intellectual. Chancellor has only imagined the world outside his four walls, but now, not only does he have to be a participant in it, he has to save it."

Red Wagon president Bobby Cohen will oversee the project along with Brad Simpson of Appian Way for their respective companies. Jeffrey Weiner and Henry Morrison will supervise for the Ludlum estate, while Paramount co-president, production Alli Shearmur will shepherd the project for the studio.

Ludlum's work has been enjoying a renaissance in Hollywood since "The Bourne Identity" became a hit for Universal in 2002. Universal made a sequel, "The Bourne Supremacy," in 2004 and also is developing "The Sigma Protocol."
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: SiliasRuby on May 29, 2005, 08:45:25 AM
Quote from: MacGuffin
Dora, who was credited with sparking Malibu's surfing subculture during the 1950s and '60s, was also a seductive prankster who had a fickle relationship with his public persona. Frustrated with the exploitation of the surfing lifestyle, he dropped out at the end of the 1960s. In the early 1980s, he was arrested for check fraud and spent time in French and American jails.
Sounds way too much like catch me if you can. Are all of leo's best stuff behind him for the moment? Until he gets to how old pacino is now, I wonder. I hope he hits one out of the park real soon.
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Post by: MacGuffin on June 18, 2005, 10:54:48 PM
Report: DiCaprio Hit With Bottle at Party

Leonardo DiCaprio was hit with a bottle while attending a party given by Paris Hilton's ex-boyfriend and needed about a dozen stitches to close a wound near his ear, People Magazine reported on its Web site.

The magazine said DiCaprio was at a party at about 4 a.m. Friday at the home of Rick Salomon when a woman struck him with what appeared to be a beer bottle. Friends took the actor to a hospital where he received about a dozen stitches, People said.

Los Angeles Police Officer Jason Lee, a department spokesman, could not immediately confirm the report.

"I have received no notification of that sort. That doesn't mean that nothing happened, but normally we would get those kind of notifications here," Lee said.

A call to DiCaprio's spokesman, Ken Sunshine, was not immediately returned, but People said the spokesman had confirmed the assault.

"While leaving a small private gathering, Leo was attacked by a woman who was trespassing and had been repeatedly asked to leave the property," Sunshine told the magazine. "The attacker struck him with a glass object before being restrained by witnesses."

The attack was not expected to affect DiCaprio's work on a Martin Scorsese movie, "The Departed," which is shooting in Boston and New York, People said.
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Post by: Find Your Magali on June 18, 2005, 10:59:48 PM
How does "Paris Hilton's Ex-Boyfriend" rank high enough on the social ladder to get the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio at his parties?

You'd think he'd be more likely to land Corey Feldman or Tina Yothers. Or maybe Tina Yothers' nephew.
Title: leonardo dicaprio
Post by: MacGuffin on June 18, 2005, 11:04:20 PM
Quote from: Find Your MagaliHow does "Paris Hilton's Ex-Boyfriend" rank high enough on the social ladder to get the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio at his parties?

The guy is the Hugh Hefner of night-vision porn.
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Post by: Kal on June 19, 2005, 12:08:51 AM
People who mess with Leo's face should be executed... thats gold baby!

:yabbse-grin:
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Post by: MacGuffin on June 29, 2005, 04:59:26 PM
Diamonds Are For DiCaprio
Thesp signs for Blood Diamond.

Leonardo DiCaprio is lining up his next project, a dramatic thriller called The Blood Diamond, according to Variety.  The project, formerly titled Diamond will be helmed by Last Samurai helmer Ed Zwick. He rewrote the latest draft with Marshall Herskovitz.

The Warner Bros.-based project is described as an African adventure set in Sierra Leone around 1999, a period when the region was in the midst of a civil war.

DiCaprio will be playing a smuggler who specializes in the sale of "conflict diamonds" or "blood diamonds" – precious stones used by the warring parties to fund their operations.  When the smuggler meets a local Mende farmer whose young son has been forced into the RUF army, the two men's fates become intertwined.

Variety adds that Diamond will likely film early next year and that Leo is expected to film another Warner Bros. project, For Whom the Bell Tolls, in the meantime.  The Avaitor star is currently wrapping Martin Scorsese's The Departed.
Title: Leonardo DiCaprio
Post by: ddbright on August 04, 2005, 05:28:44 PM
He was also really good in "This Boy's Life" with Robert DeNiro who plays a near psychopath (convincingly).
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Post by: Finn on August 09, 2005, 06:35:20 PM
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Dicaprio: "Sir, is that an erection in your lap?
Maltin: "Yes Leo, it is."
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Post by: Escapeism on August 13, 2005, 12:25:36 AM
I think he is a good actor.

Dont go see The Beach acting good story bad



Thank you and Im not Gay.  Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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Post by: MacGuffin on June 28, 2006, 08:56:50 PM
DiCaprio to take trip for Leary biopic
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to turn on, tune in and drop out for his next project. The actor's Appian Way shingle has tapped Obie-winning playwright Craig Lucas and Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz to develop a biopic on the counterculture icon as a possible starring vehicle.

DiCaprio, who knew Leary before his death in 1996, has been looking to develop a film on the LSD advocate for several years. The film will focus on Leary's life between his enrollment at West Point in the early 1940s and his escape from prison in 1970.
 
Lucas, who in recent years has worked outside the Hollywood mainstream, once worked as a frustrated studio scribe. The unconventional writer-director, who made his helming debut last year with the critically acclaimed indie "The Dying Gaul," penned such films as "The Secret Lives of Dentists" and "Prelude to a Kiss," which was adapted from a play of his.

The untitled Timothy Leary project is being produced by DiCaprio, George DiCaprio and Brad Simpson of Appian Way under their first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures, and Hillard Elkins of Elkins Entertainment.
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Post by: MacGuffin on February 13, 2007, 12:27:20 AM
DiCaprio's fueled by Enron
WB pic to be based on 'Fools' book
Source: Variety

Warner Bros. has made a preemptive deal to tell the story of Enron's collapse, with Leonardo DiCaprio starring and producing through his Appian Way shingle.

Studio is finalizing a rights deal on "Conspiracy of Fools," a book by New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald. Sheldon Turner ("The Longest Yard") has been set to write the script. WB paid seven figures for the book option and screenwriter fees.

Deal was made late last week based on a pitch delivered by Turner, who brought DiCaprio with him. Agreement puts the studio back in business with DiCaprio, who starred for Warner in "The Departed" and turned in an Oscar-nominated perf in "Blood Diamond."

In "Conspiracy of Fools," DiCaprio will play a newcomer to the Houston-based energy company who slowly peels back the layers to expose the campaign of greed and fraudulent accounting that drove Enron into bankruptcy in 2001.The scandal was previously chronicled in the 2005 docu "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," based on the book by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind.

After reading Eichenwald's book and figuring out a way into the story that made it work as a drama, Turner chased down the rights through CAA. DiCaprio, who co-wrote and narrates upcoming global-warming docu "The 11th Hour," sparked to Turner's take on the subject.

"Kurt made the factual stuff read like a thriller, and it felt right to tell the story from the point of view of an outsider," Turner said. "The goal was to take it away from feeling like a staid look at a corporation and turn it into a character study of how people react under adversity."
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Post by: MacGuffin on February 27, 2007, 01:11:55 AM
Monahan, DiCaprio reconnect
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Newly minted Oscar winner William Monahan is reteaming with "The Departed" players Leonardo DiCaprio and Vertigo Entertainment for another Hong Kong remake, a thriller titled "Confessions of Pain" for Warner Bros. Pictures, which acquired the rights to the film.

"Pain" follows two close friends, one a police detective and the other a private detective, who team to investigate the murder of the cop's father-in-law. As the investigation proceeds, they uncover evidence that shows that nothing is as it appears.

The original, released last year, was created by Alan Mak, Andrew Lau and Felix Chong, the team behind "Infernal Affairs," the Hong Kong film on which Oscar winner "Departed" was based. MediaAsia produced and financed both movies.

"Pain" is being developed as a starring vehicle for DiCaprio, who will produce via his Appian Way banner along with Vertigo's Roy Lee and Doug Davison.

Monahan, who won the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for writing "Departed," will adapt "Pain" and executive produce.

Dan Lin will oversee for Warners. Sarah Shepherd and Franklin Leonard brought the project into Appian.