Scott Rudin Buys Rights To I, Claudius And Wants Leonardo DiCaprio For The Lead

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Posted on: September 6, 2007 | No Comments

Scott Rudin Buys Rights To I, Claudius And Wants Leonardo DiCaprio For The Lead

Robert Graves’ I, Claudius is a well-known roman epic novel that was crying out to be bought onto the big screen. After Gladiator, we all predicted a slew of Roman epics. This never happened, so it’s good to see Scott Rudin (The Queen) giving the genre a wake-up call. Rudin has purchased the rights to Robert Grave’s I, Claudius for a cool $2 million.

Rudin hopes to snag Leonardo DiCaprio for the lead role in his film version (DiCaprio was reportedly attached in a previous deal at Warner Bros). He also hopes to persuade William Monahan (The Departed) to write the script.

If Rudin gets this right and assembles a cracking cast and Monahan writes a stonker of a script, this could be something very special (unlike the BBC mini-series that took 12 hours to tell the story).

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