14 DAY TRIAL // Leonardo DiCaprio is keeping very busy these days. While shooting for the J. Edgar Hoover biopic, he’s also been using the time spent with Clint Eastwood to talk about the director’s next project, “A Star Is Born,” it has emerged.
Beyonce’s name has already been attached to the film, and Deadline is now reporting that Eastwood is thinking of casting DiCaprio as her character’s love interest.
The pairing of the two onscreen would certainly be interesting and unexpected. They certainly could pull it off, word online has it.
“I hear Clint Eastwood is using his time with Leonardo DiCaprio on the J Edgar Hoover biopic to discuss the director’s new Warner Bros project A Star Is Born. Clint is hoping to team Leo with Beyonce, who’s already set for the musical,” Nikki Finke of Deadline reports.
“Clint is producing through Malpaso as well as helming the script by Will Fetters. Producers are Billy Gerber and Basil Iwanyk and Jon Peters (who made the infamous version with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson),” the same outlet reports.
The project has been with Warners for many years, and initially had Beyonce paired with Will Smith. Eastwood seems determined to make it happen now, and is convinced that Leo would do a much finer job.
“Casting Leo as the male lead would make for a much more interesting movie,” Deadline also says.
Indeed, it seems that DiCaprio is now the go-to actor if you want a movie that’s both a hit with even the most exigent of critics and with the audiences, as Martin Scorsese and Chris Nolan found out in the past couple of years.
As we also noted on a previous occasion, Leo is now working on “Hoover,” a biopic about the secret life of the controversial FBI director, which also stars “The Social Network” star Armie Hammer as Hoover’s protégé and presumed lover.
Speaking about the experience of working with DiCaprio on a film by Clint Eastwood, Hammer compared it in a recent interview to shooting a machine gun: doing something for the first time and pretending like he knew what he was doing.