Leonardo DiCaprio To Make Timothy Leary Bio
[Thursday, June 29th, 2006]
Leonardo DiCaprio is to make the biopic on Timothy Leary, according to Variety.The DiCaprio-produced take on the life of the writer-psychologist will follow him from his enrollment at West Point in the early 1940s through his escape from prison in 1970. Though Leary's work touched on many different fields, he is best known as an advocate of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD.
DiCaprio knew Leary, who died in 1996, and has long had a desire to develop a film on the controversial activist with an eye to topline, according to his reps.
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