Warner Bros Acquires Publish-World war 2 Don Winslow Novel Satori For Leonardo DiCaprio

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired the Don Winslow best-selling novel Satori and can develop it as being a star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio to experience a Westerner, elevated in Japan and trained an assassin’s abilities, who will get swept up within the chaos of publish-World war 2 because the U.S., Ussr, France and China maneuver for energy in Southeast Asia in early nineteen fifties. Shane Salerno will write the script with Winslow, and John Leshers Grisdi Productions and DiCaprio’s Appian Way partner Jennifer Killoran are creating. Salerno is executive producer. DiCaprio will have Nicholai Hel, elevated in Japan with a fighting techinques expert and genius at Go, the complex chess-like Japanese game. The actual, a Japanese general, passes on all his secrets and also the student repays him by killing his mentor being an act of devotion the military leader could have been disgraced and wiped out like a war criminal. For your act, Hel is tossed in solitary confinement inside a Tokyo, japan prison, and tortured for 3 years. He's finally sprung through the CIA after saying yes to assassinate the Soviet commissioner to China. Hel is trained for that task with a beautiful French lady he falls deeply in love with. Though lucrative sees a contented ending in the finish from the harmful assignment, Hel is tricked by his backers, and, using his Go abilities for strategy, makes his way through Vietnam hunted by American, Chinese, Russian and French intelligence agencies in addition to a Corsican mob and Vietnamese criminal syndicate. Its a classy thriller and also the studio sees possibility of its Jason Bourne-type action franchise. It’s the 2nd major studio deal for any Winslow bestseller, with director Oliver Stone finishing production a week ago on Savages, which Salerno, Winslow and Stone scripted and which stars Aaron Manley, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Benicio Del Toro, Travolta Qantas Video, Salma Hayek and Emile Hirsch. Universal acquired the film inside a three-studio putting in a bid fight before production began and also the film is going to be launched September 28, 2012. DiCaprio will next be viewed playing the title role within the Clint Eastwood J. Edgar, about FBI top cop J. Edgar Hoover for Warner Bros. DiCaprio is presently starring as Jay Gatsby within the Baz Luhrmann-directed The Truly Amazing Gatsby, and that he follows using the Quentin Tarantino-directed Django Unchained. He’s repped by Ron Yorn, Salerno’s repped by CAA and Winslow by CAA and also the Story Factory.