The Hollywood Reporter say John Orloff (A MIGHTY HEART) has been hired by Warner Bros. to re-write the Ian Fleming biopic that was set up at the studio back in May for Leonardo DiCaprio.
The movie we are told will be “very different from the Bond films” and the previous draft from first time writer Damien Stevenson began in 1952 as Fleming was about to marry his wife. Fleming’s wedding present to her was a copy of his first novel CASINO ROYALE which introduced the world to James Bond and made Fleming a household name.
Flashbacks then took us to Fleming’s years as a Reuters journalist in Moscow, his years in the MI:6 as a spy and then his later life as a playboy.
It is of course the same kind of period and “larger than life” character that DiCaprio played so well in Steven Spielberg’s CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.
We were told in May that DiCaprio was aiming to hire a writer who could mould the script he likes, into something that he would want to star in. It took him a while but he now has his writer and the movie is back underway once again.
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why does leonardo dicaprio feel the need to play the same character twice, let alone, as iconic as Ian Fleming? Why can’t it go to an unknown or someone more suitable than prettyboy Leo when Ian was certainly not a prettyboy himself. We should be seeing the real Ian Fleming story, not the suped up leonardo version. ugh anybody else thinking Geoffrey Rush, or is he too old? maybe he could play the older version, he’d be perfect