By “La La Land” filmmaker Damien Chazelle’s next film is expected to be the Evel Knievel biopic at Paramount Pictures – a film that has had Leonardo DiCaprio rumored to be starring in for several months.
Knievel was a famed, hot-headed American stunt performer known for his motorcycle jumps and breaking records for breaking bones with over 430 fractures..
Puck News today reports that DiCaprio’s manager Rick Yorn has been ‘quietly negotiating’ for DiCaprio to star. In addition, it looks as though a new script is being focused on, with Terence Winter (“Tulsa King”) having penned a draft and then Chazelle himself revising it.
The story will apparently center around Knievel’s infamous Snake River jump, which saw Knievel attempt to jump across Idaho’s Snake River Canyon using a rocket-powered motorcycle in 1974.
The report adds that the film is aiming to commence production this Summer.
Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and actor Channing Tatum were attached to a previous incarnation of the project back in the 2010s, as were director Betty Thomas and Matthew McConaughey.
The new report suggests Martin Scorsese was also attached to direct at one point. DiCaprio is currently attached to star in Scorsese’s new Hawaii-set crime film revealed earlier this week.
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