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Direct From Hollywood With Ryan Seacrest: Leo DiCaprio to Play Evel Knievel · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, prettist. Every seventies and
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Speaker 1: eighties kid who owned a dirt bike hit at least
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Speaker 1: one jump pretended to be Evil Canievo, arguably the most
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Speaker 1: famous Dear Devil of all time, the stuntman that always
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Speaker 1: wore the white jumpsuit, was a larger than life character
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Speaker 1: who dominated the imaginations of kids in his day, and
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Speaker 1: a chapter of evil story will now be told with
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Speaker 1: one of the most regarded actors of this era sliding
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Speaker 1: onto his Harley Davidson. It's Leo DiCaprio. Several other heavy
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Speaker 1: hitters are involved in the project as well. Puck reports
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Speaker 1: that a deal has all been in place for Leo
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Speaker 1: to start on a bio pick by director Damian Schazelle,
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Speaker 1: best known for the Academy Award nominated Lata La Land.
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Speaker 1: The screenplay is by the departed writer William Monahan, himself
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Speaker 1: an Oscar winner, with a new draft by Terrence Winter,
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Speaker 1: who created Boardwalk Empire. So the story currently focused on
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Speaker 1: one specific stunt Evil Knievel performed arguably is most famous,
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Speaker 1: an attempt to jump Idaho's Snake River in a rocket,
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Speaker 1: and just like evil, things move fast. The project expected
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Speaker 1: to shoot this summer on afrine dot com for details
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Speaker 1: that's direct from Hollywood.