Though Martin Scorsese is currently gathering a team of his former collaborators for The Irishman, Leonardo DiCaprio is not among them. Fear not, though; the pair has several films in development and is adding another, a drama of former US President Theodore Roosevelt, called, to little surprise, Roosevelt.
DiCaprio has been interested in playing the man for a few years now, but a previous attempt stalled in limbo. Now, though, Scott Bloom is writing a new draft, with Scorsese adding it to his directorial to-do list and Paramount has snapped up the chance to make the movie through its first-look deal with DiCaprio's Appian Way company.
Roosevelt's life is certainly interesting enough to be worth movi-fication, given his military exploits, and a political track that saw him rocket through the New York governorship and then to vice president under William McKinley, rising to the top job after McKinley was assassinated in 1901. He became known for his conservation work, setting up national parks and forests.
Scorsese and DiCaprio are already shepherd a couple of potential films towards screens, an adaptation of The Devil In The White City and Killers Of The Flower Moon.
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