On Friday, it was announced by The Wrap that Leonardo DiCaprio will be playing the role of Billy Milligan, a man with multiple personality disorder who happened to use it as a defense in a court of law for almost 20 years. Milligan reportedly had 24 personalities and was put on trial in the '70s after being accused of raping three women and committing robbery. He was innocent after his lawyers claimed the alternate personalities committed the crimes without his knowledge. The film is being adapted from a nonfiction book and DiCaprio will produce the film as well.
I'm very excited for this because this sounds like a perfect role for Leonardo DiCaprio... well to be honest, he can do any role. He was in talks to play Steve Jobs in the biopic entitled Steve Jobs, which is directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, but he dropped out. He's currently filming The Revenant, the next film from recent Best Director Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman). It's scheduled to be released in theaters on December 25th, 2015. That's one of my most anticipated films of this year, because the cast is great and Birdman was my 2nd favorite film of 2014 so I'm really pumped for this film, that could possibly get Leo his Oscar (fingers crossed). But, back to the film about Milligan... I think DiCaprio can pull off this role very well. He can do drama and comedy very well, which The Wolf of Wall Street proved extremely well. I'm curious to see who will sit in the director's chair. Maybe Martin Scorsese can do this... Steven Spielberg... David Fincher... this is going to be interesting.
- BS
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