Leonardo DiCaprio has reportedly handed up on making his deliberate Evel Knievel film with director Damien Chazelle.

Why did DiCaprio cross on the Evel Knievel film?

In response to a new report from THR on Chazelle’s subsequent film, a jail drama starring Daniel Craig and Cillian Murphy, it was famous that Chazelle pivoted to this film after prepping for months for the Evel Knievel film.

THR’s report goes on to say that DiCaprio, who was set to star within the movie, pivoted away from it after “months of talks,” and has determined to work with Martin Scorsese on his upcoming movie with Dwayne Johnson.

The explanation behind this pivot, based on the report, is because of Scorsese’s age. The legendary filmmaker is 82, and has brazenly mentioned desirous to make films till he’s unable to.

Whether or not or not that is the top of the Evel Knievel film stays unknown. The film had been to date superior in planning that it had a title, Evel Knievel on Tour, and was prepping to enter manufacturing. Adrien Brody was additionally rumored to be in dialogue to star within the movie.

As for Scorsese and DiCaprio’s subsequent film, not an excessive amount of is understood about it. Scorsese will probably be directing from a screenplay written by Nick Bilton. It will likely be produced by Scorsese, Johnson, Blunt, DiCaprio, Bilton, Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette and Rick Yorn. For the time being, the challenge has no official title, manufacturing begin date, and launch date but.

“The movie focuses on a turbulent time on the island paradise when an aspiring mob boss battled rival crime factions to wrest management of the underworld of the Hawaiian islands,” Deadline’s description of the film reads. “It was a bloody battle, the sort of terrain Scorsese coated in each Goodfellas and The Departed. In Nineteen Sixties and 70s Hawaii, this formidable and charismatic mob boss rises to construct the islands’ strongest legal empire, waging a brutal conflict in opposition to mainland firms and rival syndicates whereas preventing to protect his ancestral land. It’s based mostly on the untold true story of a person who fought to protect his homeland by a ruthless quest for absolute energy — igniting the final nice American mob saga, the place the conflict for cultural survival takes place within the unlikeliest of locations: paradise.”