Leonardo Dicaprio is all set to play his namesake Leonardo Da Vinci in a forthcoming biopic on the artist’s life after Paramount won a ferocious bidding war against Universal for the rights to Walter Isaacson’s novel which is yet to be released.

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Leonardo DiCaprio will also produce the film under his Appian Way banner.

Isaacson’s book on Leonardo Da Vinci is based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. The film will explore Da Vinci’s ultimate recipe for creativity, Labelled as being a bit of a misfit fuelling his passion as an illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical man made him the genius many see him as today.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Back in 2015 another one of Isaacson’s biographical novels made it to the big screen in the form of Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, the Apple Inc co-founder. Michael Fassbender gave a stellar performance in the title role of Jobs, closely followed by an exceptional performance from Kate Winslet as his right-hand woman, Joanna Hoffman. The film also boasted a cast of Seth Rogan, Jeff Daniels, and Katherine Waterson, the film won a handful of accolades.

Named after the artist himself after his mother felt him kick whilst observing a painting from the master himself, DiCaprio has been absent from the big screen since The Revenant has been quietly beavering away on a few projects. It is reported that he will be starring in a biopic about the founding member of Sun Records and Elvis Presley producer, Sam Phillips, as well as signing up for two new Martin Scorsese films, The Black Hand, and Killers of the Flower Moon, cementing their working relationship in stone.