No stranger to biopics, Leonardo DiCaprio ... [Leonardo DiCaprio]

No stranger to biopics, Leonardo DiCaprio ... [Leonardo DiCaprio]
No stranger to biopics, Leonardo DiCaprio may be in line to portray another 20th-century figure in Fleming, a film chronicling the life of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Outgoing LA Times columnist Jay Fernandez reports today that DiCaprio's Appian Way shingle has signed on to produce Damian Stevenson's script, which the writer insists is "the real James Bond. ... In England, Ian Fleming's exploits are much better well known. Talking to people out here, no one had any idea that M was based on a real person, Miss Moneypenny was based on a real person." As such, Fernandez notes that Stevenson spent months convincing his buyers at Warner Bros. about the script's "historical accuracy" — which we hoped would mean fresh dirt on Fleming's notorious penchant for rough sex but, alas, seems only to refer to his own Naval intelligence background that informed the Bond character. Hence, we presume, DiCaprio "[taking] the script in a different direction with a new writer." And who can blame him? The guy's been wanting to spank someone since James Cameron cut the BDSM subplot from Titanic. [LAT]
Published 5/13/08 by


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  • He's a really good actor in the Titanic. It's sad when he dies in it. T_T
    Anonymous 7/21/08 Reply
  • He's a really good actor in the Titanic. It's sad when he dies in it. T_T
    Anonymous 7/21/08 Reply
  • Leonardo DiCaprio can be a real James Bond...
    ney7nay 6/7/08 Reply