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DiCaprio engaged in JFK 'Secrecy'
By Adnan Tezer Nov 19, 2010, 20:18 GMT
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in and produce the film adaptation of "Legacy of Secrecy," based on the book about the John F. Kennedy assassination by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann.
The full title of the book is "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination."
According to Variety, DiCaprio will produce through his Warner Bros.-based Appian Way company with his father, George.
Warners, which distributed Oliver Stone's "JFK" in 1991, is looking at a possible 2013 release of "Legacy," which would coincide with the 50'th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination.
DiCaprio will play FBI informant Jack Van Laningham.
The FBI positioned Van Laningham to become confidant to Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello, who ruled organized crime in Louisiana and most of Texas for decades. The book claims that Marcello confessed to Van Laningham to having ordered JFK's assassination and that the FBI kept this a secret for 20 years.
The book also includes information from FBI and Secret Service files showing that more than a dozen of Marcello's associates and family members were questioned or arrested by authorities in connection with the assassination.
DiCaprio was last seen in Warner Bros' "Inception."
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