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Leonardo DiCaprio In Final Talks To Star & Produce ‘Jim Jones’ At MGM; Scott Rosenberg Writing

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EXCLUSIVE: In a pre-emptive situation, MGM has secured a deal for the feature film project Jim Jones, with Leonardo DiCaprio in final talks to star as the 1970s religious cult leader who was behind the mass-Jonestown suicide on November 18, 1978 that took more than 900 lives.

The Oscar winner will produce for his Appian Way company alongside Jennifer Davisson.MGM scooped up the Scott Rosenberg-penned script in what we hear was a seven-figure deal.

The Venom scribe will also executive produce Jim Jones. Jones founded the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis in 1955, and hailed it as a fully integrated congregation promoting Christian Socialism.

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