Which is a good thing, because it sure as hell doesn’t look like he’ll ever get to make The Given Day any time soon, what with its sequel Live By Night failing so hard at the box office that it may have cost Ben Affleck his director’s chair on The Batman.
However, another good reason that Leonardo DiCaprio is taking this project on is because of its political relevance.
It’s the sort of message that the actor has always seemed fond of, and it’s something that could put him in the Academy’s good graces yet again.
With all of the talk of immigration in the United States today, The Black Hand could serve as a springboard to discuss such issues in an historical context.