Leo’s Getting His Conspiracy On With JFK Thriller
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in and produce the feature “Legacy of Secrecy,” based on the book about the John F. Kennedy assassination by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann. DiCaprio will produce through his Warner Bros.-based Appian Way banner with his father, George, who brought the book to his son’s attention. Warners is eyeing a possible 2013 release of “Legacy of Secrecy” coinciding with the 50th anni of President Kennedy’s assassination. DiCaprio is expected to play FBI informant Jack Van Laningham. The book — whose full title is “Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination” — asserts that Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello confessed to Van Laningham to having ordered JFK’s assassination. As part of a dangerous and long-secret undercover operation, the FBI positioned Van Laningham to become confidant to Marcello, who ruled organized crime in Louisiana and most of Texas for decades.
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