Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company has tapped playwright Craig Lucas and Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz to develop a biopic about the counterculture icon as a possible starring vehicle reports the trades.
The film will focus on Leary's life between his enrollment at West Point in the early 1940s through his escape from prison in 1970. Leary is best known as an advocate of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD.
DiCaprio knew Leary, who died in 1996, and has long had a desire to develop a film on the controversial activist. DiCaprio's project, set up at Warner Bros. Pictures, has no relation to the Leary biopic being developed at Miramax.
