I’ve sent a few emails out this morning to try to confirm this latest tidbit of information. I’ll update you if anything comes out of this.
A question mark was needed in that headline given that nothing has been made official and my sources tell me they haven’t heard anything about this Leo rumor.
So, the gist is that Daniel Richtman‘s reporting indicates that Leonardo DiCaprio was offered a role in Quentin Tarantino’s “The Movie Critic.” No word yet on whether he accepted the offer, Richtman says he’ll only know after the strike if it’s a done deal.
It happens that DiCaprio was already rumored to be part of Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film. The scheduling will have to be ideal for him to sneak in both of these films into his itinerary. Hopefully, the actor’s strike ends soon enough and we’ll be getting more concrete official word on this.
DiCaprio seems to only want to star in films directed by elite filmmakers. Do you blame him? He’s at the stage in his career where he can choose whichever project he likes. During the course of his 30-year acting career, he’s worked with Scorsese (6x), Spielberg, Nolan, Tarantino (2x), Eastwood, Cameron, Inarritu, Luhrmann (2x), Allen, Mendes, Scott, and Boyle.
There have been so many casting rumors about Tarantino’s “The Movie Critic” that only more confusion has arisen, the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Kurt Russell and Paul Walter Hauser have all been mentioned.
“The Movie Critic” is set to be Tarantino’s 10th and, supposedly, final film. It was set to shoot in Los Angeles in September, but the SAG-AFTRA strike derailed that momentum. Tarantino has said that the script is done, so now it’s really just a game of wait and see.
Coppola lost more than $100M on "Megalopolis," got hammered for it, and he knows the clock is running out for one more film. If "Glimpses of the Moon" is that film, someone needs to write the check soon.