Teaming with Mann for Noir detective film.
by
Stax
US, May 2, 2007 - After years of vainly attempting to work together, Leonardo DiCaprio and director Michael Mann are now teaming for a film noir project. Mann will produce via his Forward Pass shingle and direct from a screenplay by John Logan (
The Aviator). The
Miami Vice helmer reportedly hopes to make the currently untitled drama his next film.
According to
Variety, "the project is an untitled noir drama that takes place on the old MGM lot in the 1930s. DiCaprio is poised to play the kind of private detective studios once relied on to clean up the scandals created by its stars. He's hired to investigate whether a starlet murdered her husband."
The script is now being shopped to studios via talent agency CAA. The film is said to have a projected budget of $120 million; New Line reportedly made a roughly $100 million bid for the project, but no deal has been sealed yet.
Variety adds, "Aside from a budget, the film has a February start date. It will shoot mostly on soundstages, and it works in classic figures like Judy Garland and Bugsy Siegel. The latter is the centerpiece of a shootout scene that unfolds in the Trocadero nightclub on Sunset Boulevard. ... Sources said the script is strong and the film has a period feel reminiscent of
L.A. Confidential."
Mann and Leo working together will be awesome.
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