Warner Bros Acquires Publish-World war ii Don Winslow Novel Satori For Leonardo DiCaprio

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired the Don Winslow best-selling novel Satori and may develop it a star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio to get a Westerner, elevated in Japan and trained an assassin’s capabilities, who'll get taken up inside the chaos of publish-World war ii since the U.S., Ussr, France and China maneuver for energy in Southeast Asia at the begining of 19 fifties. Shane Salerno will write the script with Winslow, and John Leshers Grisdi Productions and DiCaprio’s Appian Way partner Jennifer Killoran are coming up with. Salerno is executive producer. DiCaprio may have Nicholai Hel, elevated in Japan having a fighting styles expert and genius at Go, the complex chess-like Japanese game. The particular, a Japanese general, passes on all his secrets as well as the student repays him by killing his mentor becoming an act of devotion the military leader might have been disgraced and destroyed just like a war criminal. For the act, Hel is thrown in solitary confinement in the Tokyo, japan, japan prison, and tortured for three years. He's finally sprung with the CIA after tallying to assassinate the Soviet commissioner to China. Hel is trained for your task having a beautiful French lady he falls deeply deeply in love with. Though lucrative sees a cheerful ending within the finish in the dangerous assignment, Hel is fooled by his backers, and, using his Go capabilities for strategy, makes his way through Vietnam hunted by American, Chinese, Russian and French intelligence agencies additionally to some Corsican mob and Vietnamese criminal syndicate. Its an elegant thriller as well as the studio sees chance of its Jason Bourne-type action franchise. It’s the second major studio deal for just about any Winslow bestseller, with director Oliver Stone finishing production the other day on Savages, which Salerno, Winslow and Stone scripted and which stars Aaron Manley, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Benicio Del Toro, Travolta Qantas Video, Salma Hayek and Emile Hirsch. Universal acquired the film in the three-studio investing in an offer fight before production started as well as the film will probably be released September 28, 2012. DiCaprio will next be seen playing the title role inside the Clint Eastwood J. Edgar, about FBI top cop J. Edgar Hoover for Warner Bros. DiCaprio is presently starring as Jay Gatsby inside the Baz Luhrmann-directed The Fantastic Gatsby, which he follows while using Quentin Tarantino-directed Django Unchained. He’s repped by Ron Yorn, Salerno’s repped by CAA and Winslow by CAA as well as the Story Factory.