Leonardo DiCaprio to star in Martin Scorsese’s Wager
It will be a story about survival after a shipwreck.
Leonardo DiCaprio to star in Martin Scorsese’s new film The Wager. Will release an Apple picture.
According to Variety, Wager will be based on David Grann’s upcoming book Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. The book will go on sale in April 2023.
The action of the picture will unfold in the 1740s. In the story, the British warship Wager crashes on a desert island off the coast of Patagonia, South America. The team went on a journey to complete one secret mission. The captain and other crew members are forced to fight for survival and at the same time try to maintain humanity. However, the heroes soon lose their temper and stop trusting each other, leading to riots. Without murder and betrayal, the case is not complete.
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio have worked together on several occasions. So, DiCaprio starred in such films by the cult director as Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Departed. And in 2023, their new joint project, the western thriller Killers of the Flower Moon , will be released – by the way, also from Apple. At the same time, The Flower Moon Killers is based on the work of David Grann, this is a film adaptation of his book The Flower Moon Killers. Oil. Money. Blood”.
“The Flower Moon Killers” tells about the investigation of a series of murders in the Osage Indian settlement, where an oil field was found. The picture will take viewers to the 1920s. The cast also includes Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone and Brendan Fraser.