Scorsese & DiCaprio In 'The Rise Of Roosevelt'

[Monday, September 12th, 2005]
Martin Scorsese is to direct Leonardo DiCaprio as the 26th U.S. president in the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Edmund Morris book The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, according to Variety.

The movie will chronicle the formative years of Roosevelt as he reinvented himself from a slight and privileged New York politician with a Harvard degree to the burly commander of the Rough Riders, a track that would lead him to the New York governorship, the vice presidency and the White House, when William McKinley was assassinated.

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