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DiCaprio's Eco-Friendly Development Deal
Leonardo DiCaprio wants his green TV.
The Departed star's production company, Appian Way, has a reality show in the works with the goal of educating viewers about global warming, according to trade reports. The series, called E-topia will follow a construction team, architects, environmentalists and urban planners as they take a rundown town and give it an eco-friendly makeover from top to bottom.
Also teaming up to produce E-topia are Pilgrim Films and Television and Madison Road Entertainment.
Pilgrim's Craig Piligian told the Hollywood Reporter that DiCaprio's company was a natural (no pun intended) fit for such an ecologically minded project. It was Piligian and Madison Road's Tom Mazza who approached the 31-year-old actor about coming onboard.
"He was the only one we wanted to talk to," Piligian said. DiCaprio, who hosted the ABC News special Planet Earth 2000 in, well, 2000, will serve as co-creator and executive producer.
Each episode will also direct viewers to an educational Website that provides tips on how to get involved with environmental causes.
Piligian explained that the idea for E-topia was inspired both by the severe hit New Orleans took after Hurricane Katrina last year and by Al Gore's global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
"We're going to take a devastated community and help transform it as a prototype for the future," Piligian told THR. "At the end of the day, we're all going to have to change the way we live, the way we burn and use fuel…We're trying to show the country and the world by example, town by town by town, how we can change the way we live and fight global warming."
Neither a town nor a partner network has been decided upon yet.
My, DiCaprio certainly has been combative lately. While we wait for him to take on global warming, he can currently be seen in theaters fighting the Irish mob in Martin Scorsese's The Departed. He's also on the frontlines of a battle against a corrupt diamond trade in the upcoming Blood Diamond. The Ed Zwick-directed film is already generating controversy among gem purveyors for its dark depiction of the Sierra Leone diamond mines, which were seized by rebel militias in the early 1990s in the midst of a violent civil war.
"I hope they keep on publicizing the controversies and our Blood Diamond movie," DiCaprio's publicist, Ken Sunshine, told the Los Angeles Times last week.
Zwick concurred. "The changes that have come about in regard to the conflict diamond trade…came about because of increased attention on the issue. If the film can continue to increase awareness, it will have surpassed my expectations."
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