Leonardo DiCaprio may portray Ian Fleming

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LAT In 90 Seconds
Published 5/13/2008 at mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA
... And For His Last Trick: Jay A. Fernandez's final Scriptland column will run tomorrow with a kicker that calls for a "moratorium on some industry tropes that have grown mealy and stale." Jay, you're going to the Hollywood Reporter, a mere hair's breath from Variety. Think you don't like H'wood tropes now? You ain't seen nothing yet. ...

No stranger to biopics, Leonardo DiCaprio ... [Leonardo DiCaprio]
Published 5/13/2008 by STV at Defamer
... No stranger to biopics, Leonardo DiCaprio may be in line to portray another 20th-century figure in Fleming, a film chronicling the life of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Outgoing LA Times columnist Jay Fernandez reports today that DiCaprio's Appian Way shingle has signed on to produce Damian Stevenson's script, which the writer insists is "the real James Bond. ... 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." As ...

Is Leo DiCaprio the Real James Bond? [In Development]
Published 5/15/2008 by Josh Radde at Film School Rejects
... He was never considered a viable option to play James Bond when Pierce Brosnan stepped down (that part eventually went to Daniel Craig), but Leonardo DiCaprio may be the perfect person to play Bond’s creator. According to the Los Angeles Times, DiCaprio’s company, Appian Way, bought the rights to make Fleming, a film based on the life of enigmatic British author Ian Fleming who made 007 a household number. ...

Leonardo DiCaprio as the Real James Bond?
Published 5/15/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... real-life Bond-like espionage and female flattery thrown in.” And while it has not been stated that DiCaprio would play Fleming, most insiders assume that Appian Way is developing the project as a starring vehicle for DiCaprio. I could definitely see DiCaprio playing the British author, but will he ever find time? IMDb lists seven projects on the actor’s development table. Discuss: What do you think of  DiCaprio as the real James Bond? source: Los Angeles Times ...

Leonardo DiCaprio Developing Ian Fleming Biopic - The Real James Bond
Published 5/15/2008 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
... DiCaprio has quite a bit on his upcoming slate. The most recent of which to add to his growing list is a film simply titled Fleming, a biopic about the life of British author and journalist Ian Fleming. Best known as the creator of James Bond, Fleming actually had a colorful real life, working as a Reuters journalist stationed in Moscow and then a Commander of Naval Intelligence during World War II who devised innovative spying plots. The LA Times confirms that DiCaprio just became one of the producers of ...

Daily shorts: Clooney likes goats; ‘Postal’ cancelled
Published 5/16/2008 by Franck Tabouring at The Screening Log
... • An article in the Los Angeles Times hints at the possibility of Leonardo DiCaprio jumping into the role of British author Ian Fleming in “Fleming,” a film about the life of the “James Bond” creator. Leo doesn’t have the face to play Bon himself, but as a young Fleming, why not? ...