{"id":29944,"date":"2022-07-30T06:18:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T06:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-tackling-naval-survival-movie-the-wager-for-apple-the-hollywood-reporter-2\/"},"modified":"2022-07-30T06:18:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T06:18:48","slug":"leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-tackling-naval-survival-movie-the-wager-for-apple-the-hollywood-reporter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-tackling-naval-survival-movie-the-wager-for-apple-the-hollywood-reporter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese Tackling Naval Survival Movie ‘The Wager’ for Apple \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tLeonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are teaming up once again, this time to tackle an adaptation of the upcoming David Grann nonfiction book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\tApple Original Films has landed the rights to the book, due out in April 2023. The project reteams the key players and companies behind the recently wrapped adaptation of Grann’s true-crime tome Killers of the Flower Moon.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\tScorsese is attached to direct wager<\/em>, with DiCaprio attached to star. Producing are Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas of Imperative Entertainment, Scorsese via Sikelia Productions and DiCaprio and partner Jennifer Davisson via their Appian Way Productions<\/p>\n

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\tRichard Plepler will executive produce through his banner, Eden Productions.<\/p>\n

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\tSet in the 1740s, Wager’<\/em>s story is set in motion when a patched-together boat with 30 emaciated men lands on the coast of Brazil. The men were the surviving crew of a British ship that was chasing a Spanish vessel and had crashed onto an island in South America’s Patagonia region. Their tales of surviving the seas and elements made them heroes.<\/p>\n

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\tHowever, six months later another vessel, even more beat up than the first, showed up on the coat of Chile, this one with three sailors \u2014 who accuse the passengers on the other boat of being mutineers.<\/p>\n

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\tAs accusations and counter-accusations flew, the British Admiralty set a special trial to uncover the truth of what exactly happened on the island, exposing a story of not just a captain and crew struggling to survive one of the most extreme climates on the planet, but also battling their own human natures.<\/p>\n

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\tDiCaprio is coming off starring with Robert De Niro in Flower Moon<\/em>, which Scorsese directed for Apple. DiCaprio, Scorsese and Imperative produced the period crime drama, set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicting the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation. The movie is in post, although a release date has not yet been set. <\/p>\n

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\tDiCaprio and Scorsese are one of the great pairings in cinema, and in the last 25 years the two have worked together on six movies that have generated multiple Oscar wins. The list includes Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island <\/em>and The Wolf of Wall Street, <\/em>with Flower Moon <\/em>next to be released.<\/p>\n

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\tten balls of Flower Moon<\/em>Grann’s previously adapted works include 2016’s The Lost City of Z<\/em>produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, and the 2018 Robert Redford drama The Old Man & the Gun<\/em>. His nonfiction book The White Darkness<\/em> is being developed by Soo Hugh (Pachinko, The Terror<\/em>) as an Apple original limited series that will star Tom Hiddleston.<\/p>\n

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\tImperative, meanwhile, currently has its acclaimed limited series Black Bird<\/em>starring Taron Egerton, unfolding weekly on Apple TV+.<\/p>\n

\n\tA previous version of this story misstated the release date of the book behind this project.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n