萊昂納多身兼製片人 拍肯尼迪遇刺案

The assassination of US president John F Kennedy is one of those subjects that never seem to stop cropping up like a whack-a-mole in our culture. But it’s been a while since someone really tackled it cinematically, so now Leonardo DiCaprio’s having a crack, nabbing the rights to Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann’s book Legacy of Secrecy, which digs into one likely explanation for that fateful day in Dallas.

“約翰-肯尼迪遇刺案”一直是美國文化中一直被人所孜孜不斷挖掘的一個話題，據好萊塢媒體報道，好萊塢“一哥”萊昂納多-迪卡胡里奧已經從作者拉馬爾-沃爾德倫和湯姆-哈特曼手中取得了文學作品《Legacy of Secrecy》的電影改編權，計劃將這一歷史題材搬上銀屏。

Variety reports that DiCaprio first learned about the book from his father, George, and got to work with his Appian Way production company to lock in a film deal.

Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination researches the idea that Mob boss Carlos Marcello was the man who ordered the hit, having confessed as such to confidant Jack Van Laningham. Unfortunately for Marcello, Van Laningham was a deep-cover informant for the FBI. Waldron and Hartmann dug through declassified files and also found that many of Marcello’s close associates and family members were arrested in the wake of the assassination.

迪卡胡里奧從父親喬治那裏得知了這本書，並且通過了他自創的Appian Way影視公司敲定了這一計劃。《Legacy of Secrecy》講述了FBI線人Jack Van Laningham在黑幫老大卡洛斯-馬塞羅身邊向機構挖取情報，而卡洛斯曾向Jack透露他一手計劃了刺殺總統的計劃。

DiCaprio will most likely play Van Laningham in the final film, which Warner Bros., under its deal with DiCaprio’s team, is looking at getting out into cinemas for 2013, which also happens to be the 50th anniversary of the assassination itself.

這部電影將交由與萊昂納多關係交好的華納影業投資，由這位男演員自己的團隊拍攝，片中他將扮演Van Laningham一角，電影有望2013年上映，時藉肯尼迪遇刺五十週年紀念。