Leonardo DiCaprio is starting to move into television big time, but not as a star. The actor will executive produce a crime drama set in the 1980s that Showtime is developing.
The project, which still doesn’t have a title, will count DiCaprio as an executive producer through his Appian Way production company, notes Variety. It will be written by Ray Donovan’s Brett Johnson, who is also executive producing.
The series is set in Brooklyn and will cover the relationship between a mafia captain and a federal agent, who both break the rules during the 1980s. One of the underlying themes of the show will be the link between the mafia and the FBI during the Wall Street boom - the same boom that formed the backbone of The Wolf of Wall Street.
According to TheWrap, other executive producers on the project include Appian Way’s Jennifer Davisson, Bryan Zuriff, Dan Pearson, Jennifer Erwin and Charles Pacheco.
DiCaprio’s Appian Way has been increasingly busy on the TV landscape. Aside from the company’s first-look deal with Netflix to produce documentaries, Appian Way also has the rights to Simon Toyne’s novel The Searcher, which will be developed as a series.
The next time we’ll see DiCaprio on the big screen will be in Alejandro G. Inarritu’s The Revenant, which hits limited theaters on Christmas Day. He was last seen in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street.
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