By By the suggestion of his father, Leonardo DiCaprio plans to produce and star in Legacy of Secrecy, a film adaptation of Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann’s book, Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination.
DiCaprio is expected to play the role of FBI informant Jack Van Laningham, and the movie will most likely release on or around November 22nd next year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of J.F.K.’s death in 1963. As for which conspiracy theory plot it utilizes, it’s the typical mafia storyline mixed in with a bit of The Departed:
” . . . asserts that Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello confessed to Van Laningham to having ordered JFK’s assassination. As part of a dangerous and long-secret undercover operation, the FBI positioned Van Laningham to become confidant to Marcello, who ruled organized crime in Louisiana and most of Texas for decades.”
The book also suggests that the mafia played a role in Watergate and Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, with Appian Way’s Earl Katz possibly creating a separate documentary to further look into one of those aspects.
[Via Variety]
By the suggestion of his father, Leonardo DiCaprio plans to produce and star in Legacy of Secrecy, a film adaptation of Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann's book, Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination.
DiCaprio is expected to play the role of FBI informant Jack Van Laningham, and the movie will most likely release on or around November 22nd next year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of J.F.K.'s death in 1963. As for which conspiracy theory plot it utilizes, it's the typical mafia storyline mixed in with a bit of The Departed:
" . . . asserts that Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello confessed to Van Laningham to having ordered JFK's assassination. As part of a dangerous and long-secret undercover operation, the FBI positioned Van Laningham to become confidant to Marcello, who ruled organized crime in Louisiana and most of Texas for decades."
The book also suggests that the mafia played a role in Watergate and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, with Appian Way's Earl Katz possibly creating a separate documentary to further look into one of those aspects.
[Via Variety]