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Warner Bros drops war movie after DiCaprio’s departure

Aug 18, 2012

Los Angeles: Warner Bros has decided to let go of Alan Turing biopic ‘The Imitation Game‘ after Leonardo DiCaprio exited the project.

AFP

DiCaprio, who will be seen in a negative role in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained‘, quit the project but it is not clear why. Now the film must find a new home as Warner Bros is no longer interested to develop it, the Ace Showbizreported.

CAA has already tapped J Blakeson to helm the project based on the script by Graham Moore. The story chronicles the up-and-down life story of Turing, an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist who was born in 1912.

He was also a key codebreaker for the British during the World War II. However, he was said to have a tormented soul and was criminally prosecuted for his homosexuality. In 1954, he decided to kill himself by eating a cyanide-laced apple.

PTI

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