Dicaprio in Ian Fleming Biopic

Wow this is interesting, Leo as Mr.Fleming wouldn’t be too bad. Recently I have loved Leo’s work especially Departed and Blood Diamond. He is really coming in to his own, and I think he can handle this big task. I wasn’t to keen on his portrayal of Howard Hughes in The Aviator but who knows, people love Mr.Dicaprio.

LA Times reports that Leonardo DiCaprio has recently came on as producer of “Fleming,” an original screenplay written by Damian Stevenson about the life of the British author and journalist, Ian Fleming, who created James Bond. As always, DiCaprio may also star in the biopic.

“It’s going to be very different from the Bond films,” says producer Andrew Lazar (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Get Smart), who first championed the project. “There are a lot of different ways to crack biopics, but we’re not trying to emulate a Bond movie. The idea that this guy’s life informed the James Bond character is pretty fascinating.”

In fall 2005, just before the lucrative Bond franchise rebooted with Daniel Craig, Stevenson made his first script sale to Warner Bros. He then spent months mollifying the WB legal department about the historical accuracy of the Fleming story and worked through dozens of drafts with Lazar.

“It’s the real James Bond,” says Stevenson. “In England, Ian Fleming’s exploits are much better well known. Talking to people out here, no one had any idea that M was based on a real person, Miss Moneypenny was based on a real person.”

His latest version of the screenplay begins on the eve of Fleming’s Jamaica wedding in 1952, just before his first Bond novel, “Casino Royale,” was published (a wedding present to his new wife).

It then flashes back to Fleming’s years as a Reuters journalist stationed in Moscow and then a Commander of Naval Intelligence (MI6 code name “17F”) during World War II who devised innovative spying plots.

I guess we will just have to wait and see if He can deliver!