Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott are to collaborate on a big-screen version of sci-fi classic Brave New World, it has been reported.

DiCaprio will produce and possibly star in the adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1931 novel, a prophetic work set in a seemingly perfect 26th-Century world.

Sir Ridley, who worked with DiCaprio on Body of Lies last year, will direct the film, The Hollywood Reporter has said.

The director is currently shooting a Robin Hood drama with Russell Crowe.

His previous forays into science-fiction, 1979’s Alien and 1982’s Blade Runner, are considered classics of the genre.

Sir Ridley has also just announced plans to direct a prequel to Alien - which won an Oscar for its special effects in 1980.

Futurist

Huxley’s ‘futurist’ novel, written in 1931 and published the following year, has been adapted for several televised movies but has yet to make it to the big screen.

Set in a world divided into five castes, it tells of a psychologist from a lower caste who becomes infatuated with a woman from a higher order.

Scott and DiCaprio will reportedly produce the project through their respective Scott Free and Appian Way companies, with Farhad Safinia - writer of Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, recruited to write the script.

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I feel like I write a Leonardo DiCaprio story every week here on the MTV Movies Blog. There doesn’t seem to be a single movie in development that he’s not attached to as an actor or a producer, and he has everything on his slate from live action anime adaptations (”Akira” may have died, but “Ninja Scroll” is still alive and well) to mobster thrillers. He is a busy, busy guy.

Now, the actor is set to explore the world of online poker in an untitled project, according to The Hollywood Reporter. DiCaprio and Paramount have picked up an untitled pitch from Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Leo star and produce via his Appian Way banner.

Details on the story are scarce, but it is set in the world of Costa Rica-based online casinos. I’m not even sure what’s particularly noteworthy about that, but according to CBS News, Costa Rica is the Internet’s Las Vegas, and there’s a bit of a wild west mentality going on with all of the online casinos that have set up shop there. There’s a lot of money flying around, loose restrictions and no taxes… so yes, there’s probably a very good movie in there.

This certainly familiar territory for the film’s screenwriters, as Koppelman and Levien tackled underground poker with “Rounders,” and the glitz of gambling in “Ocean’s Thirteen.” They’re also old friends of DiCaprio’s, as they’re adapting “Beat the Reaper” for him to star in.

No start date for the project is set, but as I said earlier, DiCaprio has an enormous list of films in pre-production. For the time being, at least, he’ll be working on Christopher Nolan’s “Inception.” Whenever he’s finished with that, he will probably have developed five more projects. I’m feeling tired just thinking about it.

“Titanic” stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet and the film’s director James Cameron have responded to a challenge and donated $30,000 to support the last survivor of the Titanic in her last years, a representative for DiCaprio said Monday.

The survivor, 97-year-old Millvina Dean, has reportedly resorted to selling her autograph to pay her nursing home bills in Southampton, the English city from which “Titanic” began its fateful maiden voyage in 1912.

Dean was only 9 weeks old when her family traveled on Titanic in hopes of beginning a new life in the United States. Her father was one of the 1,517 casualties after the supposedly unsinkable ship hit an iceberg in the Atlantic.

DiCaprio, Winslet and Cameron made their combined $30,000 donation after Irish author and photographer Don Mullan publicly challenged them to match his donation, said Ken Sunshine, a spokesman for DiCaprio. Mullan, who photographed Dean for an exhibition, made his appeal last month in the Irish Independent newspaper.

The 1997 drama “Titanic” made more than $1.8 billion at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing film of all time in figures not adjusted for inflation. It went on to win 11 Oscars, including best picture.

Revolutionary Road stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were on The Oprah Winfrey Show on January 13. Kate Winslet’s “real” breasts have been praised by Oprah Winfrey. The US talk show host applauded the ‘Revolutionary Road’ actress’ natural figure, adding she loves seeing a woman with natural assets on the big screen. Continue reading →

President-Elect Barack Obama, Jon Hamm, Leonardo DiCaprio, and gold medal-winning Olympian Michael Phelps each have a cover for GQ Man Of The Year 2008 magazine. Take a look and say which GQ Man of the Year 2008 cover photo is your favorite. Continue reading →

Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted recently at the big New York City premiere of his new movie “Body of Lies,” held at the Frederick P. Rose Theater. Going for a black suit with a white button-up shirt and a black and silver striped tie Leonardo DiCaprio posed alongside his famous co-star Russell Crowe. The film “Body of Lies” (trailer) is due to hit theaters this Friday (October 10th), and is”based on a novel about a CIA operative who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan.”

In other Celebrity news, Leonardo DiCaprio opened up in the new issue of Parade magazine about his desire of having a family and live a normal life.