Leonardo DiCaprio is to produce and star in a film about Sam Phillips, the Memphis music producer famous for launching the careers of Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.
His latest project, the climate change documentary Before the Flood, which he features in and produced, just opened in US cinemas.
Paramount Pictures has acquired rights to adapt Peter Guralnick’s book Sam Phillips: the Man Who Invented Rock’n’Roll, and has enlisted DiCaprio to co-develop it as a star vehicle for himself, according to Deadline.
Monday saw him reveal plans to produce a film adaptation of the 1990s children’s cartoon show Captain Planet, about a superhero who fights pollution.