Leonardo DiCaprio in final talks to play cult leader Jim Jones in MGM film

Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio is in final talks to play religious cult leader Jim Jones in an upcoming film written by Scott Rosenberg. Best known as the leader of the People’s Temple religious group, Jones was behind the mass suicide in his Jonestown settlement in November 1978 that killed more than 900 people, reports Variety.com.

Jones and his inner circle planned a massacre in a jungle commune in Guyana, instructing followers to drink cyanide-adulterated punch.

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After MGM secured a deal to feature the project in preemptive status, DiCaprio also produced the project with Jennifer Davison for his Appian Way production company. Rosenberg is also on board as an executive producer.

Founded in 2001 by DiCaprio, Appian Way Productions produced Alejandro Iárritu’s three-time Academy Award-winning “The Revenant”, Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-nominated “The Wolf of Wall Street”, Academy Award-nominated “The Aviator” and “Shutter”. constructed. Island”, as well as the Peabody Award-winning documentaries “Sea of ​​Shadows”, Scott Cooper’s “Out of the Furnace” and George Clooney’s “The Eyes of March”, among others.