Leo is Leo....Da Vinci

[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/879121-leonardo-da-vinci-biopic

Paramount has bought the rights to the Leonardo Da Vinci biopic that Leo himself shall star in and produce. This may be his most high concept one yet.

 

[David H.]

All roads have led to this.

 

[Schlosser85]

Is it gonna stop playing coy about him being gay?

 

[childeroland]

Isaacson is a pretty thorough biographer, so maybe that will encourage the filmmakers to.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Is it gonna stop playing coy about him being gay?

Da Vinci was gay?

 

[vinsanity]

Da Vinci was gay?

Yap, even in the Assassin's Creed games show that

 

[Marvolo]

I thought he was bisexual.

Regardless, of how they portray his sexuality straight, gay, bi I'm interested in this film. Pretty crazy that Hollywood hasn't made a Da Vinci biopic before now. You'd think they would have tried to make one during or shortly after the Da Vinci Code craze.

 

[jmc]

There's actually not a hell of a lot concrete about Da Vinci's personal life and whom he may or may not have had relationships with.

 

[Schlosser85]

His young male lover was one of his frequent art subjects. He did various very raunchy artworks involving him that aren't, shall we say, his more publicized works.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Not happening. You guy's realise this man is attached to nearly as many projects as The Rock?

 

[Schlosser85]

Wasn't he also supposedly going to play Rasputin and a Viking King?

He's like his BFF Tom Hardy who signs up for everything under the sun and eventually drops out of 99% of it.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Yep. They're all in development.

I think the closest one to going into actual filming is The Black Hand.

 

[Boom]

And Flower Moon.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Yap, even in the Assassin's Creed games show that

How so?

 

[terry78]

I feel like he'll do this one though. Da Vinci is one of those subjects that have been always talked about but weirdly never touched via movie.

 

[scarlet-witch]

Oh man how are they doing to top his cameo in Ever After

 

[Arachnerd]

This was the role he was born to play.

 

[Consona]

Da Vinci was gay?

I thought Michelangelo was gay, not Leo.

 

[terry78]

I thought Michelangelo was gay, not Leo.

No, Baxter stockman was gay.

 

[Kreem Pi]

Da Vinci was gay?

He was arrested for sodomy.

 

[Schlosser85]

I thought Michelangelo was gay, not Leo.

They both were.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

That makes this what? The 6th biopic he stars in or more?

I'll do you a favor and list the five I know of right now:

• This Boy's Life
• The Aviator
• Catch me if You Can
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• The Revenant

 

[Asr]

^ Also J. Edgar, and The Man in the Iron Mask (which is probably one of my favorite DiCaprio movies, but not really because of him).

 

[Spider-Aziz]

^I wouldn't count the Man in the Iron Mask as a biobic, even if it uses real characters for inspiration.

 

[DACrowe]