Every day I get more and more impressed with Leonardo DiCaprio, the guy can act, he has gotten rid of the Teen Beat appearance and he chooses some great projects. His latest over at Warner Bros. and through his Appian Way production house is apparently going to be based on “Conspiracy of Fools,” a book by New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald.
The book tells the story of Enron’s collapse and Sheldon Turner, unfortunately the scribe of Sandler’s The Longest Yard, is aboard to adapt. Warner paid a lofty seven figures for the script and for some reason put it in Turner’s hands, let’s hope the rewrite lands on the desk of Haggis or Beattie even though Turner brought the idea to WB’s attention.
In “Conspiracy of Fools,” DiCaprio will play a newcomer to the Houston-based energy company who slowly peels back the layers to expose the campaign of greed and fraudulent accounting that drove Enron into bankruptcy in 2001.The scandal was previously chronicled in the 2005 documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, based on the book by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind.
On the documentary front DiCaprio seems to be done with his long talked about global-warming doc 11th Hour.
