DiCaprio, De Niro, Da "Gangs of New York"
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Titanic ticket winner has committed to star in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, a turn-of-the-century Irish wiseguy flick the director developed at Disney.
Robert De Niro, meanwhile, is negotiating for a part in the film. If he gets in, it will be the eighth time he's worked with his Taxi Driver pal, Scorsese. De Niro played DiCaprio's father in 1993's This Boy's Life, too.
Disney reportedly got hot on the project when the studio heard that DiCaprio would be starring. And the studio--keeping with its just-announced intention to do more cooperative ventures--is apparently looking to team with Warner Bros. on the film.
Scorsese, who just wrapped his Nicolas Cage-as-paramedic-in-a-bad-neighborhood drama, Bringing Out the Dead, is said to be currently retooling the Gangs script with writer Jay Cocks.
DiCaprio is currently filming The Beach in Thailand (and cozying up to Thai officials so they won't let environmentalists interfere with 20th Century Fox's work there).
To get Gangs made, however, Scorsese, De Niro, DiCaprio and Associates might have to deal with the Gangs of Hollywood--i.e. the rival talent-rep camps of Creative Artists Association and Mike Ovitz's newly founded Artists Management Group.
AMG (which represents DiCaprio and Scorsese) and CAA (De Niro) are currently engaged in a bitter feud, and last week CAA executives declared they wouldn't do business with Ovitz's new company anymore because they believe it's raiding their company of its agents and clients.





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