DiCaprio to Star for Gibson in Viking Story

By Nancy Tartaglione | Monday, December 14, 2009

Leonardo DiCaprio at the 8th Annual Cinema For Peace Gala at Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt. Berlin, Germany - 02/09/09

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Leonardo DiCaprio will star for Mel Gibson in an untitled period drama about Viking culture. William Monahan is writing the script. Variety reports that Graham King will produce with Gibson and Tim Headington in a co-production of King's GK Films and Gibson's Icon. Gibson will direct the film in fall 2010.

The principals confirmed the project but would not divulge many details, Variety says. However, the trade does say that DiCaprio will play a Viking in a storyline that will be "as unsparing as Gibson's other period directing efforts, Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto.

King previously teamed with DiCaprio and Monahan in The Departed and just worked with Gibson and Monahan in the Martin Campbell-directed drama Edge of Darkness.

"This will be an awe-inspiring story, created with some of the industry's finest cinematic talent, and I am just over the moon to be making this film with Mel, Leo and Bill," King said.

DiCaprio will likely take a film before this one. He just completed the Christopher Nolan-directed Inception and will next be seen in the Martin Scorsese-directed Shutter Island. Gibson just finished the Jodie Foster-directed The Beaver.

Story: http://www.hollywoodwiretap.com/?module=news&action=story&id=43348

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